The DPC started the investigation shortly after news of the leak broke and involved an examination into whether Facebook complied with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws.The leaked information, spotted by Insider, was posted to an online hacking forum and included the full names, phone numbers, locations, and birthdates of users on the platform from 2018 to 2019.At the time, Meta said the bad actor obtained the information through a vulnerability that the company fixed in 2019 and that this was the same information involved in a prior leak reported by Motherboard in January 2021.In a statement obtained by Newstalk reporter Jess Kelly, an unidentified Meta spokesperson said:We made changes to our systems during the time in question, including removing the ability to scrape our features in this way using phone numbers.The company highlighted what it does to combat data scraping in a blog post from last year, noting that it tasks its External Data Misuse (EDM) team with detecting, blocking, and preventing scraping."