4 years ago

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users

Facebook has suffered yet another data breach, only this time, private information from 533 million accounts have been leaked online. Even the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private credentials are part of the larger leaked data set from 2019. Private information of users was primarily obtained by exploiting Facebook’s contact importer feature that allows users to find friends on social media using their phone’s contact list. Earlier, data of 500 million LinkedIn users were being sold online by an unknown hacker who had dumped two million users’ data as sample.

The Hindu

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