533 million Facebook users' personal data have been leaked online

Does data stolen in a data breach expire?

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/04/08/does-data-stolen-data-breach-expire/

 

"Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as ‘normalized, broad industry issue’

More scraping incidents are 'expected' in the future.

An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has revealed the firm's intentions to frame a recent data scraping incident as 'normalized' and a 'broad industry issue'...

In the original emails sent to EMEA region PR staff, viewed by ZDNet and dated from April 8, Facebook's team outlined an overall 'long-term strategy' for dealing with coverage of data scraping incidents.

'Assuming press volume continues to decline, we're not planning additional statements on this issue," the email reads. "Longer term, though, we expect more scraping incidents and think it's important to both frame this as a broad industry issue and normalize the fact that this activity happens regularly'..."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faceb...aping-as-broad-industry-issue-and-normalized/