Facebook Sues Ukrainian For Stealing Selling Data Of 178 Million Users
According to the report, Solonchenko exploited Facebook Messenger’s contact import feature, which the company shut down in September 2019, to scrap personal data for users. This feature allowed users to sync their contact lists to find out which contacts have a Facebook account so they could reach out to them on Messenger. Solonchenko abused this ability to feed Facebook servers with millions of random phone numbers. He reportedly used an automated tool that could mimic Android devices to carry out this attack....