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After Data Breach Exposes 530 Million, Facebook Says It Will Not Notify Users

Facebook said that "malicious actors" scraped the data through a vulnerability that it fixed in 2019. But the publicly available data still leaves millions of users vulnerable, security experts say.
The leaked data includes personal information from 533 million Facebook users in106 countries.

Facebook decided not to notify over 530 million Facebook users whose personal data was lifted in a breach sometime before August 2019 and was recently made available in a public database. Facebook also has no plans to do so, a spokesperson said.

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