The firm acknowledged it acknowledged the narrate at the time and modified the system.
By REUTERS
APRIL 7, 2021 03: 35
The logo of Fb is viewed in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020.
(photo credit: ARND WIEGMANN / REUTERS)
Fb Inc on Tuesday acknowledged a only in the near past reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a characteristic in 2019 and that the firm had plugged the gap after identifying the narrate at the time.
Industry Insider reported closing week that phone numbers and other particulars from user profiles had been on hand in a public database. Fb acknowledged “malicious actors” had acquired the data prior to September 2019 by “scraping” profiles the use of a vulnerability in the social media provider’s system to sync contacts.
The firm acknowledged it acknowledged the narrate at the time and modified the system.
“As a results of the action we took, we’re confident that the explicit narrate that allowed them to quandary this data in 2019 no longer exists,” Fb acknowledged in a weblog put up.
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Fb says data on 530 million users ‘scraped’ before September 2019
