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Meta Platforms fined EUR251 million by Irish watchdog for GDPR breaches (update*)

By Matthew Newman ( December 17, 2024, 13:00 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms' Irish unit has been fined 251 million euros by Ireland’s privacy watchdog, for several violations of the EU’s data protection rules related to a data breach in September 2018. The data breach stems from a “vulnerability” in Meta’s code that “allowed attackers to steal Facebook access tokens, which they could then use to take over people’s accounts,” Meta said in a blog post in October 2018.Meta Platforms’ Irish unit Ireland Limited has been fined a total of 251 million euros ($263.2 million) by Ireland’s privacy watchdog for several violations of the EU’s data protection rules related to a data breach in September 2018....

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