General
Facebook has no plans to notify more than 530 million users affected by data leak
Facebook says it has not notified the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database and does not currently have plans to do so.
Key points:
- Facebook said “malicious actors” had obtained the data prior to September 2019
- Obtained details did not include financial information, health information or passwords
- But the collated data could provide valuable information to hackers
Business Insider reported last week that phone numbers and other details from user profiles were available in a public database.
Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday that “malicious actors” had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by “scraping” profiles using a vulnerability…
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