540M Facebook Records Exposed

The two batches of user records were collected and exposed from two third-party companies, according to researchers at security firm UpGuard, who found the data. It’s the latest data lapse involving the social media giant since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, which saw more than 87 million Facebook user records scraped without consent by the U.K.-based political data firm. UpGuard found a batch of scraped Facebook profiles involving 48 million records in 2018 from LocalBlox, a data firm that scrapes data from social media profiles.

Source: techcrunch.com