The leaks of 530 million users’ information — obtained by the misuse of a feature at the time, was first revealed last week by Business Insider.
Phone numbers and other details from user profiles were obtained by “malicious actors” that were “scraping” profiles using a vulnerability in a contact syncing tool, Facebook said Tuesday.
The social network said it had fixed the issue in September 2019.
Thirty-two million of the affected users were in the US, but no financial information or passwords were stolen, the outlet reported.
The company was now in contact with regulators, it said Wednesday.
Category: Technology
Source: New York Post
