Security News > 2022 > March > Facebook Hit With $18.6 Million GDPR Fine Over 12 Data Breaches in 2018

The Irish Data Protection Commission on Tuesday slapped Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms a fine of €17 million for a series of security lapses that occurred in violation of the European Union's GDPR laws in the region.

"The DPC found that Meta Platforms failed to have in place appropriate technical and organizational measures which would enable it to readily demonstrate the security measures that it implemented in practice to protect EU users' data, in the context of the twelve personal data breaches," the watchdog said in a press release.

The decision follows the regulator's investigation into 12 data breach notifications it received over the course of a six-month period between June 7 and December 4, 2018.

"This fine is about record keeping practices from 2018 that we have since updated, not a failure to protect people's information," Meta said in a statement shared with the Associated Press.

The development follows a similar penalty the DPC imposed on WhatsApp, fining the messaging service €225 million in September 2021 for failing to meet its GDPR transparency obligations.

In a related development, the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection also hit Amazon with an $886.6 million fine in July 2021 for non-compliance with data-processing laws.

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