Facebook data breach: E-mail contacts of up to 1,5 million users "accidentally" uploaded
from Lars Matt 
on April 18, 2019, 14:58 am | Write a comment
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An EU company with so many data breaches in a short period of time would have gone bankrupt due to the heavy fines. On Facebook, cracks finally have to be taken.
Facebook data breach, Facebook data breach, Facebook data breach - We can hardly hear it anymore, and yet another glitch happened to the social media giant. In the current prank, the email contacts of over a million users were uploaded without being asked.
Above we have already linked you to articles on three previous Facebook breakdowns. As Business Insider now reported, there is a new breakdown. The current breakdown has existed since May 2016 - for almost three years, unsolicited contacts were uploaded to the Facebook server. The "mistake" was only noticed now. In addition, according to their own statements, the data was uploaded “unintentionally”.
Bug discovered last month
Specifically, the “bug” was discovered last month when the Facebook login process was changed. After privacy advocates expressed strong criticism of the automatic email confirmation, the function was switched off in March. Usually, when you register, you will receive a link to activate your account. But Facebook wanted to make it even more convenient and has now "caught" a new data breach with it. The social media giant had asked some users for the password of their email account. Facebook tried to log into this automatically and thus confirm the e-mail address.
Of course, ignorant users did this - this feature is a real joke. The "consequences" are that of these 1,5 million users who entered the password of their e-mail account, contacts from their e-mail inbox were "unintentionally" uploaded. Facebook did not access the content of users' emails, a company spokesman told Business Insider.
Far more users affected
That's not the only thing Proproblem: some users have saved several hundred contacts in their e-mail address book. So Facebook could theoretically have had access to several million email addresses in those three years.
Users who have had their registration confirmed by means of a link are not affected by this - Facebook had no direct access to the e-mail account here. Affected users will now be notified - you have the e-mail addresses 😉
According to the company, all email addresses were immediately deleted from the servers. We have been recommending it for some time now Delete Facebook account. Something like that shouldn't happen - it finally needs juicy consequences.
