European privacy commission said it had fined Meta hundreds of millions of euros for negligence in protecting its users’ data.
The data breach was first discovered when a Tech Crunch report revealed that hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers were listed in a publicly-accessible database online. Although the database was later taken down by the web-host, its existence revealed that Facebook’s data had been breached.
Each time the attacker got a response, they were able to gain the personal details of the user and match these details up with the users’ phone number. As a result, users’ personal data had been leaked to malicious actors.
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