Not exact matches
The people doing the scraping used
account recovery and search
tools that let users look people up by phone numbers and email addresses, then took information from profiles.
«Taking due
account of the uncertainties and limits of its policy
tools, the Federal Reserve will provide additional policy accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic
recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.»
Facebook also said «malicious actors» have been scraping public profiles via its search and
account recovery feature, a
tool that allowed users to find people by entering their phone number or email address.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook has admitted that third parties could have used an
account «search and
recovery»
tool to scrape personal data from most of the company's 2.2 billion user
accounts.
During today's disclosure and announcement, Facebook explained that the
account -
recovery and search
tools using email and phone numbers could have been used to scrape information about of all of Facebook's users.