Facebook

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.

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/139063/laws-and-regulations/irish-dpc-fines-meta-data-scraping.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/facebook

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"type": "Breach",
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"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"

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                        'location': 'Global',
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                                              'bios',
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 'threat_actor': 'Unknown',
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