Ireland’s Data Protection Commission launches own-volition inquiry into Facebook. Personal information for 533 million of the social network’s users appeared for sale online. Facebook says the data appears to have been stolen from June 2017 to April 2018 and later combined with other data. It’s not clear what anti-scraping practices Facebook had in place when the data was exposed. Facebook downplay its responsibility for the breach by claiming attackers obtained the data “not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/irelands-privacy-watchdog-launches-gdpr-probe-facebook-p-3018