Facebook: 2 billion users may have had their personal data skimmed

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-87-million-cambridge-analytica-data-2018-4
“Most” of Facebook’s 2 billion users may have had their personal data skimmed from the site by “malicious actors,” the company said in a blog post by Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer.

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers
    https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/22/facebook-analytics-leak/

    Set the “days without a Facebook privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been delivered to someone outside their company. It contains sensitive business information, including weekly average users, page views and new users.

    Forty-three hours after we contacted Facebook about the issue, the social network now confirms to TechCrunch that 3 percent of apps using Facebook Analytics had their weekly summary reports sent to their app’s testers, instead of only the app’s developers, admins and analysts.

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Washington Post:
    The AG for the District of Columbia files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica access to users’ information
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/19/dc-attorney-general-sues-facebook-over-alleged-privacy-violations-cambridge-analytica-scandal/

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