Facebook Blames Scraping, Not Hacking, Data Leak for 530 Million People

Facebook is attributing a reported data leak with information on more than 530 million users to a vulnerability that it previously identified in 2019. Malicious actors exploited a Facebook feature by using a method of scraping, an often automated process of netting unsecured public data, the company said in a blog post.

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