Facebook made headlines earlier this year after profile details from 87 million users was improperly accessed by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. “The implications of this are huge,” Justin Fier, director of cyber intelligence at security company Darktrace, told Reuters. About 90 million people will have to log back into Facebook or any of their apps that use a Facebook login, the company said. Two Facebook users sued the company over the breach in federal court in California on Friday. In 2013, Facebook disclosed a software flaw that exposed 6 million users’ phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers for a year, while a technical glitch in 2008 revealed confidential birth-dates on 80 million Facebook users’ profiles.

Source: Standard Digital September 29, 2018 08:26 UTC