Meta Data Leak News Today

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission released a decision fining Meta €265 million for a 2019 data leak involving the personal information of approximately 533 million Facebook users. The DPC argued Meta failed to comply with the GDPR’s requirement of providing privacy.

The leaked data contains the phone numbers of users, which could be used for scamming people. It contains information about over six million Indian users as well.

Meta Platforms could face a hefty fine as a probe by a key European Union privacy watchdog into the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion users last year draws to a close.