Meta fined €265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users
by Dan Milmo and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#669B8)
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly 1bn by EU since September 2021
Facebook's owner has been fined 265m (230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online.
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles of the EU's data protection laws after details of Facebook users from around the world were scraped from public profiles in 2018 and 2019.
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