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Massive Facebook data leak connected to undisclosed 2019 breach

Wednesday April 7, 2021. 04:11 AM , from AppleInsider
Facebook on Tuesday responded to a recently reported data leak that potentially impacted more than 530 million users, saying the information was likely scraped from its servers in a newly disclosed 2019 incident.Facebook product management director Mike Clark, in what smacks of an attempt to downplay the massive breach, explained the situation in a blog post published to the company's newsroom. Importantly, the post and additional reporting from Wired reveals a previously unreported breach of Facebook's systems.Clark acknowledges a Business Insider report regarding a massive leak of data related to some 530 million Facebook users, but emphasizes that the information was scraped and not obtained through a hack. He adds that Facebook is 'confident' that it rectified the issue. Read more...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/07/massive-facebook-data-leak-connected-to-undisclosed-2019-...
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