Facebook confirms data was stolen, doesn't plan to notify the 533 million users

by: Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Apr 8, 2021 / 12:48 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 8, 2021 / 12:48 PM CDT FILE – This March 29, 2018, file photo shows the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (NEXSTAR) – On Tuesday, Facebook addressed reports that 533 million user of the social media site had their data stolen in a “scraping” incident that happened back in 2019. In a Facebook blog post, the tech company said it was aware of the issue and that the stolen data — including phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, email addresses — was a result not of hacking, but of “scraping.” “It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,” the blog post reads. Scraping is a “common tactic,” Facebook said, which “often relies on automated software to lift public information from the internet and can end up being distributed in online forums,” as was the case with the recently reported 2019 hack. “We believe the data in question was scraped from people’s Facebook…
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