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Facebook - Data Breach

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Executive Summary

Aleksandr Kogan's app 'thisisyourdigitallife' launched, exploiting the Graph API v1.0 to harvest profile data not only from ~270,000 users who installed it, but also from all their Facebook friends - ultimately collecting data on up to 87 million people. The data was shared with Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebook's terms.

Aleksandr Kogan's app 'thisisyourdigitallife' launched, exploiting the Graph... - Facebook | PrivacyWire