“Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta for €251 million for non-compliance with the EU Data Privacy Regulation.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta for €251 million for non-compliance with the EU Data Privacy Regulation. This was reported by Euractiv with reference to the statement of the Irish regulator. The fine was issued for a breach of the security of the Facebook social network, which affected about three million accounts in the European Economic Area.Advertisement: The reason for the breach was an error in Facebook’s architecture, which allowed unauthorized persons using scripts to exploit a vulnerability in the Facebook code and view closed user profiles. Meta discovered the security issue in September 2018, patched the vulnerability and notified law enforcement. However, according to the DPC, Meta did not fully document the breach and did not provide full information to regulators. This meant that Meta violated the EU Regulation, for which it was fined €11 million. Advertisement: The bulk of the fine — €240 million — relates to the nature of the personal data breach itself, which is “the failure to incorporate data protection requirements into the design of the breached system.”