Meta, the company which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined €265m (£228m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
The fine is over a data breach that saw the personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users published online.
Phone numbers and email addresses of up to 533M users appeared on an online hacking forum.
The DPC launched an investigation in April 2021.
Facebook said at the time that the information, some of which had already appeared online a number of years ago, was “scraped”, but not hacked, by malicious actors through a vulnerability in its tools prior to September 2019.
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