Facebook faces $1.6 billion fine as top EU regulator officially opens probe into data breach
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/facebook-data-breach-top-eu-regulator-officially-opens-investigation.html
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has opened a formal investigation into the data breach at Facebook that affected nearly 50 million accounts.
On Tuesday, the data protection watchdog said it was looking into whether to open an official probe and on Wednesday decided to do so.