Ireland's privacy watchdog fines Facebook owner Meta €265m for leaking of users' personal details

This latest fine brings the total penalties levied on Meta over the past 18 months to just over €900m. File photo: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €265m by Ireland’s privacy watchdog after the personal details of 533 million Facebook users were leaked on the internet.

The Data Protection Commission today announced the fine and a series of remedial measures it wants Meta to take following an investigation it began in April of last year. That probe was prompted by reports that a “collated dataset” of user information had been made available on the web.