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Facebook Cambridge Analytica data harvesting

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Made public · 87,000,000 people at most

What leaked8

Hard to replace

  • Email address
  • Other profile data
  • Social media profile

Permanent

  • Photos
  • Private messages
  • Date of birth
  • Full name
  • Gender
  • Photosphotos the person was tagged in; app users and, where their settings allowed, their friends
  • Private messagesFacebook messages; app users only, depending on their settings
  • Date of birthapp users and, where their settings allowed, their friends
  • Email addressapp users only, depending on their settings
  • Full nameapp users and, where their settings allowed, their friends
  • Genderapp users and, where their settings allowed, their friends
  • Other profile datacurrent city, if set on the profile; app users and, where their settings allowed, their friends
  • Social media profileFacebook profile and pages liked · app users and friends; timeline and news feed posts and friends lists · app users

To-dos2 · about 35 min in all

  1. If threatened: do not pay, keep the messages, report it to the policeabout 30 minfreeLimits harm from: extortion with private data
  2. Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsabout 5 minfreeLimits harm from: phishing messages

What happened next10 events

  1. Undetected 2 eventsabout 1 yr 10 mo · Back to latest
  2. Response 3 eventsNotice in 860 days · show events
  3. RemedyNone on record
  4. Penalty 3 eventsFine $5B · show events
  5. Disputes 2 eventsJudgment · show events

Undetected: 2 events

Back to latest
  1. Misuse of the data harvested by the app was discovered · ICO
  2. Intrusion began
Company
Facebook
When it happened
Company detected it
Made public
Notice
Leak confirmed
Affected
87,000,000 people at most · Facebook's estimate, mostly in the U.S.; at least 1 million in the UK · ICO

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