The leak, discovered last year, led to the personal information of more than 500-million Facebook users being published online
Meta Platforms was slapped with a €265m fine for failing to prevent the leak of the personal data of more than half-a-billion users of its Facebook service.
On top of the fine — the third-biggest under GDPR — the watchdog ordered Meta’s Irish unit to make sure its processing complies with the law, according to an emailed statement on Monday. The investigation looked into “Facebook Search, Facebook Messenger Contact Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools in relation to processing carried out by Meta” between May 2018 and September 2019, the data protection commission said.
Meta said in a statement on Monday that “protecting the privacy and security of people’s data is fundamental to how our business works” and that it had co-operated fully with regulators.
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