The new breach comes as Facebook strives to convince its more than 2 billion users that it can be trusted. It is grappling with the fallout from the revelations that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of up to 87 million users, as well as that it unwittingly played host to a massive Russian misinformation campaign during the 2016 U.S. elections. And on Thursday, Facebook confirmed that it had been using phone numbers provided by users for two-factor authentication as fodder for ad targeting.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 28, 2018 17:27 UTC