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Facebook Sues Ukrainian for Scraping, Selling Data of 178 Million Users

25
Oct
2021
Facebook Sues Ukrainian for Scraping, Selling Data of 178 Million Users

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The defendant is Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, whom Facebook says used the online monikers “Solomame” and “barak_obama” on the RaidForums hacker forum, where he allegedly sold illegally obtained information.

According to the social media giant, Solonchenko, who worked as a freelance computer programmer, abused its Contact Importer tool to scrape the user IDs and phone numbers of millions of Facebook users.

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