In what is regarded as the first substantial test of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Irish Data Protection Commission said approximately 3 million Europeans were affected by a Facebook security breach in September, CNBC reports. A spokesman for the Irish DPC said, "The update from Facebook last Friday, 12 October, was significant as Facebook has confirmed that the personal data of millions of users was taken by the perpetrators of the attack." He added, "The Data Protection Commission's statutory investigation into the breach and Facebook's compliance with its obligations under the GDPR continues."
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