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“It’s alleged that the data was obtained by scraping publicly available data shared by users.”

Miklos Zoltanprivacyaffairs.com ↗

Facebook will say nobody hacked it, and that is technically true. Somebody scraped 1.5 billion profiles that Facebook let anyone read at scale. Facebook’s response was a takedown request to the forum. A company that sells access to your data for a living can’t stop strangers from taking it for free.