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Yesterday evening, we informed you about a huge leak of personal data of more than half a billion users. Facebookall over the world. It appeared on one of the hacker forums, with the fact that practically anyone who was interested in it had access to it. However, according to a recent statement, FacebookIt seems that the whole problem is not as hot as it seemed at first glance - it is already relatively outdated. 

According to the statement FacebookAccording to the information provided to the media by his spokesperson, data for more than half a billion user accounts was leaked “already” in 2019, with Zuckerberg’s company discovering and fixing the security flaw in August 2019. It could therefore be said with a bit of exaggeration that the world no longer has to worry too much about the leak, as it was able to largely reveal outdated data – for example, regarding the user’s location, phone numbers, and so on. However, this is undoubtedly a problem that should have been addressed. Facebook avoidable in any case and for which it will very likely be criticized in the coming weeks and months. This is the largest leak of user data in its history. 

User data leaks are not for Facebook Unfortunately, this is nothing unusual. Larger or smaller leaks caused by various security flaws unfortunately occur several times a year, even though the operator of this social network has been trying to improve security for a long time. However, it is by no means successful in this.

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