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Comment by yellowyacht

Facebook is using doublespeak here.

> It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019.

.. a couple paragraphs later ::

> We believe the data in question was scraped from people’s Facebook profiles by malicious actors using our contact importer prior to September 2019.

Gee, that sounds a lot like someone abused your contact importer tool to do something you didn't intend for it to do. Which is also the definition of other "hacks", like SQL injection

parent yellowyacht 5 years ago

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