The reason for the recent data leakage of more than 530 million users of the social network Facebook was not hacker hacking into its systems, but the so-called web scraping.\u00a0This is stated in a message from the social network, published on its official\u00a0website\u00a0on Tuesday, April 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company explained that cybercriminals gained access to information by extracting data from Internet resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is important to understand that attackers obtained information not by hacking into our systems, but by extracting data from our platform,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, on April 3,\u00a0it became known about the leak of\u00a0personal data and phone numbers of more than 500 million Facebook users, in particular, almost 10 million users from Russia.\u00a0A company representative then said that the information was extracted due to a vulnerability that was fixed in 2019.\u00a0In total, users from 106 countries were affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August 2020, cybersecurity experts\u00a0discovered the\u00a0data of more than 150 million users of social networks Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn in the public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The reason for the recent data leakage of more than 530 million users of the social network Facebook was not hacker hacking into its systems, but the so-called web scraping.\u00a0This is stated in a message from the social network, published on its official\u00a0website\u00a0on Tuesday, April 6. The company explained that cybercriminals gained access to information…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n