Facebook’s tardy disclosure of breach timing raises GDPR compliance questions
The question of whether Facebook will face any regulatory sanction over the latest massive historical platform privacy fail to come to light remains unclear. But the timeline of the incident looks increasingly awkward for the tech giant.
While it initially sought to play down the data breach revelations published by Business Insider at the weekend by suggesting that information like people’s birth dates and phone numbers was “old”, in a blog post late yesterday the tech giant finally revealed that the data in question had in fact been scraped from its platform by malicious actors “in 2019” and “prior to September 2019”.
Facebook s tardy disclosure of breach timing raises GDPR compliance questions
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The Data Protection Commission is working to get to the bottom of a Facebook data leak that affects up to 1.5 million people in Ireland.
It is believed the information was scraped from the social media site before GDPR regulations came into force.
Names, email addresses and phone numbers of 1.5 million Irish people are now available online.
Additional information given by users to Facebook, such as locations and employers names, are also now in the public domain, thanks to a major data leak that’s affecting 530 million people globally.
It’s believed the information was scraped from the site back in 2018, before GDPR rules were introduced.