Facebook decided not to notify half a billion users about their data breach

Facebook has not notified 530 million users of the social network about the leak of their personal data to the Internet. Writes about it Reuters. A platform spokesman also said that the developers do not plan to notify them in the future about this.

The company said that they did not have accurate and complete information about the affected users. The spokesman for the social network also said that the published information was publicly available before the leak, and users cannot solve this problem in any way.

In early April, journalists discovered a database on the Internet, which contained 533 million entries with users’ personal data. It was posted by one of the users of the hacker forums. It includes phone numbers, identifiers, email addresses, and more. The list even was the personal information of Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg).

Several days later, the director of product management at Facebook, Mike Clark (Mike Clark), said that the leak did not occur due to hacking. According to him, the database consists of information that was collected from open sources using special software. The collection was carried out until September 2019.