Facebook makes weak excuses for database blunder

Stefan Mileschin · 9th April 2021, 07:15

Do people even bother paying for PR any more?

It would appear that Facebook has got so arrogant that it does not even have to bother with coming up with a decent excuse to explain its antics.

Facebook did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database.

In a normal situation, a company would be hunkering down in damage control and be offering some decent excuses which would have been workshopped after hours of meetings with the PR team.

Not Facebook. It says it has no plans to tell anyone their details were nicked and rather than coming up with any excuse, it is going to blame “malicious actors” and get on with its life.

Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday that “malicious actors” had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by “scraping” profiles using a vulnerability in the platform’s tool for syncing contacts.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52651-face...tabase-blunder

9th April 2021, 07:15	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 149,092	Facebook makes weak excuses for database blunder Do people even bother paying for PR any more? It would appear that Facebook has got so arrogant that it does not even have to bother with coming up with a decent excuse to explain its antics. Facebook did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database. In a normal situation, a company would be hunkering down in damage control and be offering some decent excuses which would have been workshopped after hours of meetings with the PR team. Not Facebook. It says it has no plans to tell anyone their details were nicked and rather than coming up with any excuse, it is going to blame “malicious actors” and get on with its life. Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday that “malicious actors” had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by “scraping” profiles using a vulnerability in the platform’s tool for syncing contacts. https://fudzilla.com/news/52651-face...tabase-blunder

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