{"id":889269,"date":"2024-12-19T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=889269"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T04:04:14","slug":"eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-251-million-euros-for-2018-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/19\/eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-251-million-euros-for-2018-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"EU privacy regulator fines Meta 251 million euros for 2018 breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) on Tuesday for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users.<\/p>\n<p>Meta notified Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission at the time that cyber attackers had exploited a vulnerability in Facebook\u2019s code that impacted the \u201cView As\u201d feature that lets users see what their own profile looks like to someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead European Union data privacy regulator for Meta fined the social media giant 251 million euros ($263.5 million) on Tuesday for a 2018 Facebook security breach that affected 29 million users. Meta notified Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission at the time that cyber attackers had exploited a vulnerability in Facebook\u2019s code that impacted the \u201cView As\u201d feature that lets users see what their own profile looks like to someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}