Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, said in a blog post that while the functionality could help people find more friends on the social networking site, it could also have allowed bad actors to extract
public profile information by using the phone numbers or email addresses they already possess, noting the scope of the activity the company has observed.
Schroepfer said that «malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have», and that «most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way.
Chief technology officer Mike Shroepfer, who wrote the update, said this was because «malicious actors» had «abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery».
«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery,» says the post.
The company said it found people abused that feature to hoover
the public profile information by submitting emails or phone numbers they already had.
Facebook also said it will no longer allow people to search for a person by entering their email and phone number, a feature that has facilitated «malicious actors,» who have used it to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses.
«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery,» he added.
Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.
However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.
Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.
However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape
public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery.
Not exact matches
It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their
public profile information scraped
by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.
On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire
by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the
public profile information of the company's two billion users.
Facebook says it believes most of its 2.2 billion users had their
public profile information scraped
by businesses or various malicious actors through this technique at some point.
Facebook also found that the ability to search people
by phone number or email address was allowing others to scrape
information from
public profiles.
Many people have
public social networking
profiles that a collector can use to find a mailing address, phone number, cell phone number, place of employment and other contact
information by searching those sites.
The notice says the app misused the
information, including
public profile, page likes, birthday and current city,
by sharing it with the data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook also said in the blog post Wednesday that «most people on Facebook» may have had their
public profile information scraped
by malicious actors.
Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user
information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their
public profile data scraped
by outside harvesters.
The notice says the app misused the
information, including
public profiles, page likes, birthdays and current cities,
by sharing it with Cambridge Analytica.
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Zuckerberg's post came following
public outcry in response to a report last weekend from The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired
by the Trump campaign, gained access to private
information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their
profiles, locations and what they like.
Wylie went
public in mid-March 2018 with revelations that Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired data from millions of Facebook users, and then used that
information to psychologically
profile people in an attempt to manipulate the 2016 election; their services had been retained
by Donald Trump's campaign, he said.
It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their
public profile information scraped
by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.
The search tool allowed anyone to look up a user's
public Facebook
profile information, which can include things like gender and birthdate,
by searching on only the person's phone number or email address.
That was being used
by malicious actors to scrape
public profile information, it said.
On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire
by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the
public profile information of the company's two billion users.
The search tool allowed anyone to look up a user's
public Facebook
profile information, which can include things like gender and birth date,
by searching on only the person's phone number or email address.
Facebook has admitted that «most» of its 2.2 billion users «could have had their
public profile scraped»
by third parties without their knowledge, and that the personal
information of up to 87...
Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user
information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their
public profile data scraped
by outside harvesters.
Facebook says it believes most of its 2.2 billion users had their
public profile information scraped
by businesses or various malicious actors through this technique at some point.