DUBLIN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - The lead European Union data

privacy regulator for Meta fined the social media giant

251 million euros ($263.5 million) on Tuesday following two

inquiries into a personal data breach.

The inquiry was opened six years ago after Meta notified

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) of the breach that

impacted around 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which

about 3 million were based in the EU.

Meta remedied the breach shortly after its discovery, the

DPC said.

($1 = 0.9527 euros)