The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts.

The breach affected approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which some three million were based in the EU/EEA

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission found multiple infringements of the rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation.

DUBLIN :The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) on Tuesday for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users.Meta notified Ireland's Data Protection Commission at the time that cyber attackers had exploited a vuln

Meta has been fined around $263 million in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users which the company disclosed back in September 2018. From a report: The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) -- enforcing the bloc's General...