Because of data leak: Facebook group must pay 265 million euros
Facebook parent company Meta has been fined 265 million euros by the European Union. Affected are 500 million user data from 107 countries, which were available in a hacker forum.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, must pay a fine of 265 million for breaches of data protection. The reason was data of 500 million users that fell into the clutches of hackers. This was the verdict of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which imposed the fine on the Facebook group after completing an "extensive investigation process" in cooperation with other EU data protection authorities. The data of the affected users circulated in a hacker forum. In addition, the Facebook group will be required to implement a series of measures in the future to better ensure user data protection.
The data set leaked in scene forums contained user data from a total of 533 million Facebook profiles from 107 countries. The captured data included names, Facebook IDs, linked phone numbers, private email addresses, and in some cases information on place of residence and birth. The investigation against Facebook was launched by the DPC back in April 2021. At the time, the data protection officers were interested in whether the meta corporation was adequately protecting the data of its users.
Source: Euronews.com/Computerbase.com
