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5 Mar 2020 · National · Media & Entertainment

Data Leak / Misconfiguration HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

The OAIC launched landmark Federal Court proceedings against Facebook, citing systemic policy exposures that allowed the Cambridge Analytica app to harvest the personal profile footprints of over 300,000 Australian users without consent.

Incident details

Organisation

Facebook Australia

Date

5 Mar 2020

Attack type

Data Leak / Misconfiguration

Severity

HIGH

Sector

Media & Entertainment

State

National

Records affected

300,000+

Threat actor

Cambridge Analytica

Source

mumbrella.com.au ↗

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