Meta has been fined €265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for the data leak suffered by Facebook.
It exposed the data belonging to millions of Facebook users.
The Data Protection Commission is also imposing a range of corrective measures on Meta.
On April 3rd, 2021, a user leaked the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users in a hacking forum for free online.
Leaked data included users’ phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and for some accounts the associated email addresses.
"id": "FAC215421222",
"linkid": "facebook",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "04/2021",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"