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Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Facebook Data Breach

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined €251 million by the European Union's Data Protection Commission (DPC) for a 2018 security breach that compromised the personal data of approximately 29 million users worldwide, including 3 million within the EU. The breach involved the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Facebook's "View As" feature, leading to unauthorized access to user profiles and sensitive information.