Facebook tentatively concludes spammers were behind recent data breach - WSJ

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Big rumble unlikely to be nation state.

Facebook tentatively concludes spammers were behind recent data breach - WSJ
Facebook Inc has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The people behind the attack were a group of Facebook and Instagram spammers ...

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