Facebook leaked personal data to 6 million users
Facebook on Saturday admitted that 6 million users leaked personal data due to a software crash.
Here is the official Facebook message about this: "As a result of (malfunction) when downloading the archive of your account to Facebook using the Download Your Information tool (" Download a copy of your information ", DYI), the user could get email addresses and phone numbers of other users from his contact “the list or those with whom he was in any way connected to the social network."
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Facebook immediately turned off the DYI tool for fixing vulnerabilities and re-enabled this service a day later. The manual social networks claim that no data, "leaked" from the accounts, were not used with malicious intent.
Here is the official Facebook message about this: "As a result of (malfunction) when downloading the archive of your account to Facebook using the Download Your Information tool (" Download a copy of your information ", DYI), the user could get email addresses and phone numbers of other users from his contact “the list or those with whom he was in any way connected to the social network."
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Facebook immediately turned off the DYI tool for fixing vulnerabilities and re-enabled this service a day later. The manual social networks claim that no data, "leaked" from the accounts, were not used with malicious intent.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/184266/
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