Summary:
- Meta (formerly Facebook) has been fined $251 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to a 2018 data breach.
- The breach, which affected over 30 million users globally, allowed hackers to access users' personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and other details.
- The DPC found that Meta failed to have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to protect the security and integrity of users' data, leading to the significant fine.