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Hacker Recycles Data on Half a Billion Facebook Users

2021-04-06 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld

A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. In a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by Facebook, the company said it is confident the posted information is old data that originated from a weakness in its contact importer feature that was discovered and fixed in August 2019.

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