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2010 Facebook — data breach (87,000,000+ records)

2010 87.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

87,000,000

Technical writeup

Facebook is listed in Wikipedia's "List of data breaches" for 2010 (87,000,000+ records). Organization type: social network. Method reported: [data misuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal "Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal"). Details: 87,000,000.

Root cause

[data misuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal "Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal")

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