Facebook will not notify the 533 million users exposed in online database

Facebook does not plan to notify its customers who may be among the half a billion users whose personal information was exposed after being posted to a website used by hackers.

Last weekend, it was reported that a database of records from more than 533 million Facebook accounts — including phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays and other personal details — had been shared online. While the leak did not include sensitive information such as credit card or social security numbers, the data could still be exploited by bad actors. Facebook (FB) noted earlier this week that the data was scraped from public profiles on its platform in 2019 using its "contact importer" feature. The company says it quickly made adjustments to the feature to prevent such activity from happening again.