![]() ![]() This is another example of the ongoing, adversarial relationship technology companies have with fraudsters who intentionally break platform policies to scrape internet services. ![]() ![]() The methods used to obtain this data set were previously reported in 2019. Scraping is a common tactic that often relies on automated software to lift public information from the internet that can end up being distributed in online forums like this. It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019. We have teams dedicated to addressing these kinds of issues and understand the impact they can have on the people who use our services. On April 3, Business Insider published a story saying that information from more than 530 million Facebook users had been made publicly available in an unsecured database. ![]()
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