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2025 Alleged API scraping — 1.2B records

2025 1.2B records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Details not publicly disclosed

Technical writeup

A threat actor claimed to have bypassed modern Meta rate-limits to scrape 1.2 billion records. Meta contested the claim, but security firms confirmed much of the data was fresh (not in previous 2021 leaks).

Root cause

Alleged API scraping vulnerability; rate-limit bypass.

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