In a statement the Irish Data Protection Commission said Facebook hasn't given it many details yet. GDPR gives regulators the power to issue huge fines but this is yet to be tested. This will be the first data protection incident from one of the major tech companies since the enforcement of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May. There's the potential Facebook detected their activity incredibly quickly but also the possibility the attackers could have been compromising user information since the vulnerabilities were introduced fourteen months ago, in 2017.Ĭritically, for European users, Facebook has been in touch with the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland – where it is registered – to inform it of the breach. At the moment Facebook doesn't know how long the attackers were in its system. Over the following two days, it called law enforcement and fixed the vulnerability. A second bug resulted in the uploader generating the access code and finally the View As page also generated an access code for whoever the hacker was looking for.įacebook first spotted unusual activity within its network on September 16 and then uncovered the attack on September 25. The first bug on Facebook made its video upload tool accidentally show up on the View As page.
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