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Facebook reckons latest data breach the work of spammers: WSJ
- Friday | 19th October, 2018
(Reuters) – Facebook has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Last week, Facebook said that cyber attackers had stolen data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, adding that the data theft had hit fewer than the 50 million profiles it initially reported. Facebook first disclosed the breach in late September and said it had fixed the issue soon after discovering it on Sept. 25. Facebook said in an email to Reuters that it was cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on this matter. It had also notified the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Congressional aides and the Data Protection Commission in Ireland, where the company has European headquarters.
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