Meta Targets User Information Database Scraping In Bug Bounty Expansion
On Wednesday, the company – recently rebranded from Facebook – said that the two new areas of research revolve around scraping bugs and scraped databases containing user information. Dan Gurfinkel, Security Engineering Manager, said that the inclusion of valid scraping bugs and exposed data sets in a bug bounty program are, to the firm’s knowledge, an “industry first.” Meta/Facebook has been involved in numerous incidents around user data scraping. The most well-known is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the data of up to 87 million users was scraped and shared without their consent....