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The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal also received media coverage in the form of a 2019 Netflix documentary, The Great Hack. [88] This is the first feature-length media piece that ties together the various elements of the scandal through a narrative. [ 88 ]
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 ...
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 addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common. Most reported breaches are in North America, at least in part because of relatively strict disclosure laws in North American countries. [citation needed] 95% of data breaches come from government, retail, or technology industries. [1]
Facebook alleged it was "old data" from a problem fixed in August 2019 despite the data's having been released a year and a half later only in 2021; it declined to speak with journalists, had apparently not notified regulators, called the problem "unfixable", and said it would not be advising users. [245]
Collection #1 was discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of "Have I Been Pwned?," a website that allows users to search their email addresses and passwords to know if either has appeared in a known data breach. [3] The database had been briefly posted to Mega in January 2019, and links to the database posted in a popular hacker ...
The data, which was found on a website for hackers, included names, phone numbers, locations, birthdates and email addresses of Facebook users. Meta said the data had been “scraped” from Facebook.