Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its “contact importer”, enabling the scraping of 533M users’ data (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Researchers say Fb has identified for years about exploits just like the one which used its “contact importer”, enabling the scraping of 533M customers’ information — Software program makers cannot catch each bug each time, however Fb had ample warning in regards to the privateness issues with its “contact import” characteristic.