Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Caused by abuse of contact syncing feature.

Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
Facebook did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database, and does not currently have plans to do so, a company spokesman said. Business Insider reported last week that phone numbers ...

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