Personal information on about 267 million Facebook users, most of them in the U.S., was exposed on a searchable database by a group that appears to be in Vietnam, Bloomberg reported. The exposed data includes user names, phone numbers and Facebook IDs, and was exposed due to a coding flaw that left the database open, the article says. A Facebook spokeswoman told Bloomberg the company believed...
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