After Data Breach Exposes 530 Million, Facebook Says It Will Not Notify Users

The leaked data includes personal information from 533 million Facebook users in106 countries.

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Facebook decided not to notify over 530 million of its users whose personal data was lifted in a breach sometime before August 2019 and was recently made available in a public database. Facebook also has no plans to do so, a spokesperson said.

Phone numbers, full names, locations, some email addresses, and other details from user profiles were posted to an amateur hacking forum on Saturday, Business Insider reported last week.

The leaked data includes personal information from 533 million Facebook users in 106 countries.

In response to the reporting, Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday that "malicious actors" had scraped the data by exploiting a vulnerability in a now-defunct feature on the platform that allowed users to find each other by phone number.

The social media company said it found and fixed the issue in August 2019 and its confident the same route can no longer be used to scrape that data. 

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/986005820/after-data-breach-exposes-530-million-facebook-says-it-will-not-notify-users

I've said from the start that Facebook is the work of the devil.  As it dictates more and more to us, you will comply.