Facebook Provides Users with an Online Form for Enquiry of the Reports on Suspected Data Breach

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Social media, Software, Computing, World Wide Web, Facebook, Terms of service, Social information processing, Internet privacy, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Privacy
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  • Media Statements

    Date: 13 April 2021

    Facebook Provides Users with an Online Form for Enquiry of the Reports on Suspected Data Breach

    The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD), has commenced a compliance check on the reported data breach incident relating to the users of the social media platform Facebook.

  • According to Facebook, these numbers are measured by the phone numbers with the international dialing code for Hong Kong (i.e.
  • +852, not necessarily the users actual locations) disclosed in the public dataset and have not been validated by Facebook.
  • Facebook further indicated that the data were obtained by malicious actors by scraping publicly accessible information from the Facebook platform prior to September 2019.
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