Facebook announces official opinion on 530 million user data leaks, 'The system has not been hacked.'

Personal information of Facebook users has been flowing out of more than 500 millionsingle item for, today announced the official view that 'the fact of the news surrounding Facebook's data' Facebook is on his blog.

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On April 3, 2021 local time, it was reported on the hacking forum that more than 533 million Facebook user data across 106 countries were released. The personal information contained in the published user data was Facebook ID, location information, date of birth, career, phone number, email address, etc.

It has been pointed out that 533 million user data leaked from Facebook, which will be the worst data leak in history --GIGAZINE

In the newly announced official opinion, Facebook repeatedly emphasizes that 'it is not due to hacking about the system, but due to information leakage due to scraping that occurred in September 2019.' According to Facebook, the implementation of the 'import contacts' function before September 2019 was flawed, and when uploading any phone number with this function, the associated account was displayed. Therefore, scraping this flaw with a bot collected the account associated with the phone number and the information displayed in the public profile of that account at once.

Facebook database was released online and it turned out that personal information of more than 400 million people was leaked --GIGAZINE

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Facebook concludes that 'the data released this time is information leaked before September 2019.' In addition, Facebook already has a specialized team to investigate violations such as 'the problem has already been fixed', 'the leaked information does not include financial information, health information and passwords' and 'data scraping'. We promise to continue to actively pursue malicious attackers. We encouraged users to check the safety of their settings through regular privacy checks.