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Facebook Sues Ukrainian Quiz-makers for Stealing User Data with Malware Plugins

Facebook Sues Ukrainian Quiz-makers for Stealing User Data with Malware Plugins

Facebook has sued two Ukrainian men for allegedly using quiz apps to scrape Facebook users’ private data and inject advertisements into their News Feeds. The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov of running a years-long hacking scheme.Between 2017 and 2018, they enticed users to install malicious browser plugins promising horoscopes or “character [...]

With 13 million users, Facebook is now Ukraine’s leading social network

PlusOne, a Kyiv (Kiev)-based communication agency, has just published a study on Facebook use in Ukraine. According to this study, the US social network attracts some 13 million users in the country monthly, which accounts for more than a half of total Internet audience (21.4 million). Notably, Facebook’s popularity in the country seems to have [...]