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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. By 2019, Facebook grew to become the world largest social networking site with over 2.4 billion monthly active users. Facebook’s user base accounted for more than half of the world’s 4.5 billion Internet users, and Facebook’s annual revenue was over $70 billion. Facebook’s users do not directly pay for the service, and Facebook makes the majority of its revenue from advertisers that target users with online ads. The rise of such a large online social platform was unprecedented in human history and holds both promise and peril.
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Graham Cluley was employed by security company Sophos at the time of his discovery.
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No more than a few hundred users installed WannaMeet as it was a prototype application used to teach some of the pitfalls of computer security. Data supplied to WannaMeet about friends was not arbitrarily stored without their permission.
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Meet the hackers who break into Microsoft and Apple to steal insider info, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/meet-the-hackers-who-break-into-microsoft-and-apple-to-steal-insider-info/
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Daswani, N., Elbayadi, M. (2021). Facebook Security Issues and the 2016 US Presidential Election. In: Big Breaches. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6655-7_5
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