Ireland fines Meta $264 million over 2018 Facebook data breach
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The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €251 million for GDPR violations stemming from a 2018 Facebook vulnerability in the "View As" feature that allowed unauthorized parties to exploit user access tokens and exposed personal data of roughly 29 million accounts; the decision cites failures to implement data protection by design and proper breach notification, and Meta also agreed to a separate $50 million settlement in Australia over Cambridge Analytica-related privacy breaches.
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