Facebook missed opportunities to prevent and then deal appropriately with the data breach at the time. Schroepfer said that Facebook had demanded that the 87m records collected were deleted, but the breach was not reported to regulators. Facebook “lacked integrity” because it failed to tell MPs the extent of the data breach at a previous hearing in February. It was wrong for Facebook to threaten legal action against the Guardian as an article about the Cambridge Analytica data breach was close to publication. He was then pressed on why Facebook executives were in Cambridge Analytica’s office at the time the data breach revelations emerged.

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2018 15:21 UTC