Facebook Reveals New Data Leak Incident Affecting Groups' Members

LASER_oneXM

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Facebook today revealed yet another security incident admitting that roughly 100 app developers may have improperly accessed its users' data in certain Facebook groups, including their names and profile pictures.

In a blog post published Tuesday, Facebook said the app developers that unauthorizedly access this information were primarily social media management and video streaming apps that let group admins manage their groups more effectively and help members share videos to the groups, respectively.

For those unaware, Facebook made some changes to its Group API in April 2018, a month after the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, limiting apps integrated with a group to only access information, like the group's name, the number of members and the posts' content.
 

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I thought they were being "tough" on app permissions and scrutinized app developers more?

The fact that Facebook apps used to be able to access friend's data is unbelievable... One person used the Cambridge Analytica app and the data of their friends could be taken too? Ridiculous. All of Facebook need to be audited.
 

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