Irish data authority probes Facebook over breach

Dublin

IRELAND'S data protection authority launched an investigation into Facebook on Wednesday, bringing stringent new European privacy laws to bear on the tech titan after a security breach exposed 50 million accounts.

The move comes after the social media firm admitted to the data breach in a blog post last Friday, saying that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the website's code in September in a way that could have given them access to people's accounts.