Meta has been fined €251 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for a 2018 Facebook breach, exposing sensitive data of millions of EU users.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a major security breach that occurred in 2018, affecting millions of Facebook users in the European Union. The fine, announced on December 17, 2024, comes after the company failed to meet crucial data protection standards set by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).