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Facebook won't tell you if you're part of massive data breach

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Facebook is in no mood to notify those who were affected in a massive data breach involving 533 million users, including over 61 lakh Indians. The company, however, said that it has "made changes to the contact importer" to stop the scraping of the data which is old. Scraping is a common tactic that often relies on automated software to lift public information from the internet that can end up being distributed in online forums like this.