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The social network said “malicious actors” collected the data by scraping, a technique that uses robots to store information that becomes public.
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The company said that this was possible from a “misuse” of a tool that helped users find friends more easily using the phone’s contact list and that this flaw would have been corrected in September 2019.
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The disclosure of phone numbers, e-mails and dates of birth on a hacker forum was disclosed not last Saturday (3).
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“The leak did not include financial, health or password information,” said Facebook, noting that “the specific problem that allowed this data to leak in 2019 no longer exists.”
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This is not the first time that data from millions of members of the largest social network, which has about 2 billion users, are released on the internet.
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Revealed in 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a British company that used unauthorized personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users for political propaganda purposes, has tarnished the social network’s reputation for data privacy.
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