{"id":420,"date":"2012-10-31T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/?p=420"},"modified":"2018-02-09T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:52:31","slug":"facebook-are-trying-to-cover-up-a-major-user-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/facebook-are-trying-to-cover-up-a-major-user-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook are trying to cover up a major user data leak.\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100145509179097531376\/posts\/RLFQGCSdLc9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Facebook User Data Leak - Facebook has Major Privacy Issues\" src=\"https:\/\/6.mshcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/facebook-bug.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook User Data Leak\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook User Data Leak Scandal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Facebook have been trying to cover up a major user data leak, they are brushing it off, by saying the data was obtained by &#8220;scraping&#8221; publically available data from the facebook site. But that doesnt ring true, as the person selling them said they got them via a Facebook Application, and Facebook Applications can access users email addresses, via Facebook&#8217;s dodgy permissions request panel.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, go here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100145509179097531376\/posts\/RLFQGCSdLc9\">Facebook are trying to cover up a major user data leak.\u2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook have been trying to cover up a major user data leak, they are brushing it off, by saying the data was obtained by &#8220;scraping&#8221; publically available data from the facebook site. But that doesnt ring true, as the person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/facebook-are-trying-to-cover-up-a-major-user-data-leak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,429,43,46,45],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-data-privacy","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-data","tag-facebook-privacy","tag-facebook-user-data-leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbpurity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}