Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked

guest · Mar 5, 2020

Judge Demands More Details on Facebook Data Breach Settlement
March 5, 2020
https://www.courthousenews.com/judg...re-details-on-facebook-data-breach-settlement

A federal judge on Thursday refused to approve a settlement over a 2018 data breach that would force Facebook to submit to independent audits of data security measures for the next five years.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup accused lawyers for Facebook and a class of 4 million social network members of using “smoke and mirrors” to obscure what if anything in the agreement is new.

“This is very vague to me as to what real benefit anybody is getting out of this case,” Alsup said.
In 2018, hackers infiltrated millions of Facebook accounts by exploiting a vulnerability in a “View As” feature for user profiles.
Facebook initially said the breach affected 50 million users but later downgraded the estimate to 29 million users, including 4 million in the United States.
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Alsup told the lawyers in court Thursday that he will not approve the deal until Facebook submits a sworn statement detailing precisely what commitments in the settlement are not already required under existing legal obligations.
Without that information, the judge said he cannot adequately assess whether plaintiffs’ lawyers should be allowed to seek up to $17.7 million in attorneys’ fees and costs.

“I’ve seen this game before,” Alsup said. “People agree to do something they’ve already agreed to do, and the plaintiff wants a lot of money for that. That’s a trick. We don’t allow tricks.”
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guest · Nov 18, 2020

Facebook Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
November 17, 2020
https://www.mediapost.com/publicati...ook-data-breach-settlement-moves-forward.html

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to Facebook's settlement of a class-action lawsuit over a security lapse that enabled hackers to steal 30 million users' information.

The proposed settlement requires Facebook to implement new security tools, undergo assessments and increase the frequency of “integrity checks” aimed at detecting breaches, among other measures.

“This proposal provides the primary injunctive goal of this suit: elimination of the vulnerability and Facebook’s commitment to security measures to protect not just class members but all Facebook users’ personal information,” U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup in the Northern District of California wrote Sunday in an order allowing the settlement to move forward.
If granted final approval, the settlement will resolve a class-action complaint over a security glitch uncovered in September of 2018, when Facebook reported that hackers had obtained personal data for millions of users worldwide by exploiting a coding vulnerability.
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guest · Jun 27, 2021

Facebook Pays $6.5 Million to End Fee Fight in Breach Case (1)
June 24, 2021
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/busin...-million-to-end-fee-fight-in-data-breach-case

Facebook Inc. will pay $6.5 million to class counsel in a lawsuit that alleged the company’s negligence allowed hackers to obtain user information via software bugs, ending a dispute over attorneys’ fees.

The parties reached an agreement prior to a hearing scheduled for Thursday, they told Judge William Alsup. The amount is described in a stipulation as “a material reduction from the total attorneys’ fees and litigation costs Plaintiff initially sought.”
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Stephen Adkins sued the social media giant in 2018, saying the personal identifying information of 50 million users was exposed “due to a flaw in Facebook’s code” that allowed hackers to take over user accounts. The company said the breach was made possible by a bug in the website’s “view as” feature, which was intended to increase user control over privacy.

Alsup, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, approved the $6.5 million agreement via a remote hearing after asking the parties about the finality of the deal and about payments to a special master. The deal resolves all disputes in the case, and the special master will be paid from the established settlement fund, the parties said.
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