Data Protection: How has it been abused in the past?

Data protection is something that we never thought we'd have to deal with. We were all in control of our personal data. The most protection we needed was to ensure our bank details were disfigured when we binned the pieces of paper. Now we have passwords with special characters and numbers. And still somehow our accounts are being accessed.

Facebook is a good example of a data protection incident. Third party apps were used to access data of friends and thus friends of friends and so this continued till there were around 50,000,000 accounts breached and left vulnerable. Soon this was sealed up and the accounts were secured and the "holes" were soon patched and sealed. The full story can be found on these websites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45686890

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

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