{"id":889850,"date":"2024-12-20T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=889850"},"modified":"2024-12-20T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:30:03","slug":"meta-fined-263-million-for-6-year-old-data-breach-that-leaked-29-million-facebook-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/20\/meta-fined-263-million-for-6-year-old-data-breach-that-leaked-29-million-facebook-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta fined $263 million for 6-year-old data breach that leaked 29 million Facebook accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s data privacy authorities have imposed a $263 million fine on Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, for a 2018 data breach that exposed millions of user accounts. The breach exploited vulnerabilities in Facebook&#8217;s code, allowing hackers to steal digital keys, or access tokens, that granted control over user accounts. Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta&#8217;s lead privacy regulator within the EU, issued the penalty after a detailed investigation. The case underscores the EU&#8217;s commitment to enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), one of the world&#8217;s strictest privacy laws. Meta plans to appeal the decision, maintaining that it acted swiftly and transparently to address the breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s data privacy authorities have imposed a $263 million fine on Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, for a 2018 data breach that exposed millions of user accounts. The breach exploited vulnerabilities in Facebook&#8217;s code, allowing hackers to steal digital keys, or access tokens, that granted control over user accounts. Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta&#8217;s lead privacy regulator within the EU, issued the penalty after a detailed investigation. The case underscores the EU&#8217;s commitment to enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), one of the world&#8217;s strictest privacy laws. Meta plans to appeal the decision, maintaining that it acted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889850","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}