"In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people—mostly in the US—may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica," Schroepfer wrote toward the bottom of the post. Schroepfer noted that beginning April 9, Facebook will make it possible for users to see if their data … Read …

On the same day that Facebook announced that 87 million users may have had their personal data improperly accessed — updated from the “tens of millions” figure the social network previously reported — the company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare question-and-answer session with … Read More

While a vast majority (81.6 per cent) were accounts of users from the United States, the user information sold to the shadowy data-mining firm included the accounts of up to 311,000 Australian Facebook users. Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm affiliated with President Donald Trump's campaign, … Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today revealed that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume their public data has been compromised by third-party scrapers. The source of this vulnerability is Facebook's search function, which allows anyone to look up users via their email address or phone numbers. Read More

Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook. "When you're building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world," he said on Wednesday, "there are things that you're going to mess up. "What I … Read …

The fresh disclosures about the Cambridge Analytica affair are dismaying for Facebook Inc., and they were getting a lot of deserved attention on Wednesday. But what happened at the shadowy political consulting firm is largely about Facebook's past. The company made other changes Wednesday that … Read More

Amid growing pressure to remove bad actors from Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the company would likely release more information about problematic content posted to the service during elections. But to ensure the accuracy of the data, Zuckerberg said, the reports will likely … Read More

Cambridge Analytica is refuting a report by Facebook today that said Cambridge Analytica improperly attained data on up to 87 million users. Instead, it claims it only “licensed data for no more than 30 million people” from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan's research company Global Science Research. It also claims … Read More

The Facebook data of up to 87 million people – 37 million more than previously reported – may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the company has revealed. This larger figure was buried in the penultimate paragraph of a blogpost by the company's chief technology officer, Mike … Read More

Up to 87 million people may have had their Facebook data improperly passed to a third-party political firm – and most users' public profile information could have been collected, the social media company has revealed. Initial accounts estimated the number of people affected at around 50m. Read More