“It is important to understand that attackers obtained information not by hacking into our systems, but by extracting data from our platform,” the company said in a statement.
It is noted that cybercriminals gained access to information by extracting data from web resources or the so-called web scraping.
It is also reported that Facebook has teams to respond to similar issues.
Earlier it was reported that the European regulator for the protection of personal data is checking messages about the leakage of information of 533 million Facebook users.