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Meta fined $263.5m in Europe over user data breach

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined 251 million euros (US$263.5 million) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) due to a data breach that occurred six years ago.

The breach affected approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, including around 3 million in the European Union.

The DPC reported that Meta took action to address the breach shortly after it was identified.

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