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Facebook data on more than 500M accounts found online

Facebook has been grappling with data security issues?.

Details from 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.

The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is.

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