Facebook accidentally scraped the email contacts of 1.5 million users

Fb has been embroiled in any other password-related mess.

As reported through Industry Insider, the social media large inadvertently uploaded the email contacts of 1.5 million customers who had simply signed up to the network.

The Issue stems from when Fb asked new users for his or her e-mail passwords at signal-up, an ordinary request which used to be spotted a few weeks in the past through a cybersecurity researcher through the name of “e-sushi.” 

Fb ended the practice shortly after it used to be called out on it, but it seems customers who had entered their passwords probably had their contacts scraped anyway with out their permission. The Corporate said it is within the means of deleting the contacts. Learn Extra…

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