Facebook says hackers 'scraped' data of 533 mn users in 2019 leak
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San Francisco (AFP) April 7, 2021
Facebook said Tuesday that hackers "scraped" personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists. A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social network to explain what happened and call on people to