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Facebook sued hours after announcing security breach
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Quote:Hours after it announced a massive security breach that affected at least 50 million of its users, Facebook was sued in a California court.

The lawsuit was filed by two of the social network's users, Carla Echavarria of California, and Derrick Walker of Virginia. The two plaintiffs are seeking class-action status for their grievance, in what's likely the first of many such suits to come.

According to a copy of the complaint obtained by ZDNet, the two argue that Facebook failed to protect their data, which, according to a Facebook official statement published hours before their filing, was harvested by yet-to-be-identified hackers exploiting a combination of three bugs in Facebook's source code.

"This case involves the continuing and absolute disregard with which Defendant Facebook, has chosen to treat the PII of account holders who utilize Facebook's social media platform," the lawsuit reads.
"While this information was supposed to be protected, Facebook, without authorization, exposed that information to third parties through lax and non-existent data safety and security policies and protocols."

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-s...ty-breach/
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