Facebook Claims Site Scraper Responsible for Leak of 1 Million User Emails

Yesterday, we reported that a blogger claimed to have purchased a list of over one million Facebook user emails , complete with full names and the URLs of their Facebook profiles. Facebook has contacted Search Engine Watch to offer a new statement, as part of their ongoing investigation: Facebook is vigilant about protecting our users from those who would try to expose any form of user information. In this case, it appears someone has attempted to scrape information from our site. We have dedicated security engineers and teams that look into and take aggressive action on reports just like these. We continue to investigate this specific individual. The problem, as we spoke with Facebook about yesterday and again today, is that we also obtained the file in question and it seems highly unlikely the leak was the work of an individual scraping the Facebook website for publicly ...

Full article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2220379/Facebook-Cla...

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