Facebook Admits Data From Nearly 2 Billion Users Compromised by ‘Malicious Actors’

(CD) — Buried in Facebook’s announcement that Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered data from up to 87 million users—rather than the previously reported 50 million—was the stunning admission that “malicious actors” exploited the social networking site’s search features to collection information from “most” of its 2 billion users. The detail was pointed out on Twitter by Wired journalist Matt Burgess, among others: Buried in […]