Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU
The penalty was issued in response to the leak of 533 million Facebook users' data reported in. That included phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and locations, information that could be exploited in phishing and other attacks. The private information of sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists and others were posted online, the DPC said.
At the time, Meta blamed the attack on"bad actors," but Ireland's regulator said the company failed to comply with GDPR obligations of"data protection by design and default." It wrote in aTurn on browser notifications to receive breaking news alerts from Engadget
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