Ankara: Turkey on Thursday fined social media giant Facebook for over $281,000 for a data breach that exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users in the country.
Facebook exposed the name, gender, birthday, relationship status, educational background, religion, hometown, personal data and location information of 280,959 users, said the Personal Data Protection Authority Turkey's watchdog agency for data privacy.
Facebook was fined $201,865 dollars for the breach and nearly $79,000 for failing to provide notice of the breach.
