China News Service, April 7th. According to "Central News Agency", a few days ago, the US social media platform "Facebook" was revealed that the data of more than 530 million users had been leaked, causing concern.
“Facebook” stated on the 6th that hackers “crawled” personal information from more than 500 million users in 2019, using a tool designed to make it easier for people to find friends from their contact lists.
Data map: On April 10, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the American social media platform Facebook, testified at a joint hearing held by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Commerce, Technology, and Transportation, and on Facebook Apologies for data misuse and other issues.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Deng Min
According to previous media reports, a hacker forum recently exposed the personal data of more than 530 million "Facebook" users. These users involved 106 countries and regions. The leaked information included the user's "Facebook" account name, birthday, and email. Address etc.
In this regard, "Facebook" explained the reason for the matter and called on the public to be more vigilant in privacy settings.
"Facebook" product management director Mike Clark said: "Malicious actors did not obtain these data by hacking into the'Facebook' system, but (through) the capture on the'Facebook' platform before September 2019. It’s important to know this.” According to reports, “crawling” refers to a technique that uses automated software to collect publicly shared information on the Internet.
Clark said: “This is another example of the ongoing and hostile relationship between tech companies and scammers, who deliberately violated platform policies to capture online services.” According to Facebook, the leaked data does not include users’ data. Password or financial information.