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This week, we obviously have to discuss the hundreds of millions of Facebook and Clubhouse user profiles that were scraped using APIs. In other news, Forrester has published their fresh and insightful report “The State of Application Security”, and there’s a new online training “Building an Identity Architecture for APIs”.

Data Leak: Facebook

The biggest recent data leak news is the huge database of 530 million Facebook users that was made available. Facebook has made an official statement on the incident, downplaying it because the data was “scraped” already back in 2019 using Facebook’s APIs, rather than obtained through some sort of database access or another “direct” hack.

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