“We believe this information was obtained through malicious browser extensions installed off of Facebook,” Guy Rosen, Facebook vice president of product management, tells Consumer Reports. That’s because Facebook says the data loss didn’t stem from a security breach of the social platform itself but rather from an extension people had loaded onto their computers.
A recent leak of private Facebook messages, primarily in Europe, should remind consumers to be cautious when downloading and using web browser extensions, security experts say.
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