Ireland's Privacy Watchdog Fines Meta 265 m Euros Over 2019 Breach

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Meta has been fined €265 million, $277 million, by Ireland's data regulator, for failing to stop hackers that stole 533 million Facebook user info in 2019.

The countries worst hit by the leak included Egypt (44 million records), Tunisia (39 million), the USA (32 million) and the UK (11 million). User data that was exposed included full names, phone numbers, gender, date of birth, location, relationship status and email address.

[computing.co.uk...]

Earlier story Facebook, App Devs Left 540 Million Users' Data Exposed [webmasterworld.com]
Data Protection Commission for Ireland Starts Enquiry into Facebook [webmasterworld.com]

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Meta didn't commit the crime, the authority should catch who did

They don't have any actual authority over any US company to be issuing fines. Who comes up with these lavish amounts people must pay them anyway? And where do the millions go? Media isn't asking.

If hacks are made profitable for... someone... they will happen again. A fine is not the solution, Meta just needs to make sure it can't happen again.

Ireland can go focus on catching the hackers instead of holding their hands out for a quarter billion, none of which goes to those actually impacted by the hack.