--The Irish Data Protection Commissioner on Thursday said it was opening a new probe of Facebook Inc. (FB) to see if the company violated data rules pertaining to how it saved user passwords, Reuters reports Thursday.

--The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union, the report said.

--Last month, Facebook said a flaw in its system caused millions of passwords to be stored in a readable format on some of its internal systems.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/irish-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-facebook-over-password-storage-idUSKCN1S11YV

--Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 25, 2019 13:34 ET (17:34 GMT)

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