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Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users. [35] [36] While Cambridge Analytica claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles, [37] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, [38] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. [39]
Facebook has defended its security following its latest data security breach, but has been criticised for failing to apologise to users. In recent days it has emerged that personal data linked to ...
A German court said on Monday that Facebook users whose data was illegally obtained in 2018 and 2019 were eligible for compensation. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that the loss of ...
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
This data breach impacted roughly 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which about 3 million were from the EU and EEA. The categories of personal data affected included the user’s full name ...
In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook based on internal documents from unknown provenance. Revelations included reporting of special allowances on posts from high-profile users ("XCheck"), subdued responses to flagged information on human traffickers and drug cartels, a shareholder lawsuit concerning the cost of Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark ...
LONDON (AP) — European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling 251 million euros on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform ...
October 3, 2019: Turkey v. Facebook, Inc. On October 3, 2019, the Turkish Data Protection Authority sued Facebook for $282,000 after the data of around 281,000 Turkish users was leaked by a data breach, stating that Facebook had violated data protection laws. [79] October 10, 2019: Finco Services, Inc. v. Facebook, Calibra, JLV, Character SF