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Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its “contact importer”, enabling the scraping of 533M users' data

Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its “contact importer”, enabling the scraping of 533M users' data

Software makers can't catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature.

Facebook says the leaked 533M records are a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking

Data of EU privacy chief Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, and dozens of EU officials found among Facebook's leaked data set of 533M records

Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel among European leaders whose data was leaked online.  —  EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders …

Facebook says the leaked 533M records are a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking

The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.