Comment by AmericanChopper

This is a very imaginative use of the word “breach”, according to the details reported in the article at least. Internal staff (inadvertently) had access to users plaintext passwords. The article doesn’t mention any use of these credentials in a breach though, and doesn’t make any refutation of Meta’s claim that this never occurred. Internal staff having access to my data is what I would normally expect from a service like the ones Meta operates. It’s a bad mistake to make, but contriving these circumstances into being a “breach” is a bit more mask-off than I’m used to the Data Protection agencies being. Hope Ireland makes good use of its $102M.