Friday, 24 March, 2023

Facebook sues programmer alleging he scraped data for 178M users

<p>Facebook has sued Ukrainian programmer Alexander Solchenko, alleging that he scraped data of more than 178M users. He imitated an Android device, to exploit FB Messenger&#39;s contact import feature, and then gathered data when the site returned account info for any phone number he fed it.&nbsp; The alleged collection of&nbsp;data happened between Jan 2018 and Sept 2019 and started selling it on darknet forums in Dec 2020 before FB tracked him down.<br /> &nbsp;</p>