Facebook says hackers ‘scraped’ data of 533 million users in 2019 leak | Malay Mail

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 — Facebook said yesterday that hackers “scraped” personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists. A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was...

Wednesday, 07 Apr 2021 10:02 AM MYT

A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social network to explain what happened and call on people to be vigilant about privacy settings. “This is another example of the ongoing, adversarial relationship technology companies have with fraudsters who intentionally break platform policies to scrape internet services.”

“All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free,” Alon Gal, chief technology officer at the Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence firm, said Saturday on Twitter.“Bad actors will certainly use the information for social engineering, scamming, hacking and marketing,” Gal said on Twitter.

 

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