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My Facebook Was Breached by Cambridge Analytica. Was Yours?

How to find out if you are one of the 87 million victims
Source: Carolyn Kaster / Reuters

Facebook has begun to notify users who were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. If you or one of your friends installed the personality-quiz app “This Is Your Digital Life” prior to 2015, then some of your data illicitly made it to the servers of the voter-profiling company.

If your data was ensnared in the breach, you’re not alone. I’m also one of Cambridge Analytica’s victims. (If you’re not sure whether you were affected, you can go to this Facebook page, which will tell you if your information was shared.)

I know I was affected

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