By BBC LIFESTYLEMore by this AuthorMalicious quiz apps were used to harvest thousands of users' profile data, according to Facebook. Facebook is suing Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, of Ukraine, who worked for a company called Web Sun Group. ", gained access to this information via the Facebook Login system – which enables connections between third party apps and Facebook profiles. "In total, defendants compromised approximately 63,000 browsers used by Facebook users and caused over $75,000 [approximately Sh7.5 million] in damages to Facebook," the company said in court documents first published by online news site The Daily Beast. "Fundamentally, this shows the failures of the app ecosystem - where there was little verification of what apps were doing," he told BBC News.

Source: Daily Nation March 12, 2019 08:26 UTC