Facebook in the permanent data crisis

Published on: October 15, 2018 / Update from: October 15, 2018 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein

Since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal became public in April 2018, Facebook has not come to rest. Already in June the largest social network in the world had to add a new breakdown. Software errors made postings unintentionally to “public”-14 million accounts were affected. However, the last incident with 50 million affected user accounts is significantly more serious. Hackers apparently took advantage of a security gap. The attackers were probably concerned with so-called access token, digital keys, with the help of which the accounts of other users can be taken over.

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