Meta hit with $263m fine over 2018 Facebook data breach

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  • Meta has been hit with a €251 million GDPR fine
  • Punshment follows Facebook data breach incident in 2018
  • Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is yet to collect many of the fines

Meta has received yet another GDPR fine, with the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp facing a €251 million (around $263 million) hit following a 2018 data breach which exposed around 29 million Facebook accounts globally, 3 million of which were EU-based users.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has been one of Europe’s leading regulatory bodies when it comes to holding tech firms to account, handing out huge penalties for GDPR violations, including the largest ever GDPR fine, a $1.3 billion charge, also against Meta, for data handling.

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