Nov 29: Meta fined $277M yet again in Ireland for data breaches, concerns in Korea that major global companies' privacy officers are in-name only
Image by montypeter on Freepik Nov 29: Meta fined $277M yet again in Ireland for data breaches, concerns in Korea that major global companies' privacy officers are in-name only Irish regulators fined Meta another $277 million for breaching the GDPR . This fine was the result of an investigation into reports that over 533 million user data was found online in a hacker's forum, with the data including names, phone numbers, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. The data breach occurred through 'data scraping'. This latest fine on Meta comes after a 405 million euro fine on Instagram in September for mishandling teenagers' personal information, a 17 million euro fine in September for mishandling data breach notifications, and a 225 million euro fine for WhatsApp for violating rules on sharing user data with other Meta companies. There are concerns in Korea that major international companies operating in Korea, such as Meta, Google, and Nike,