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Turkish watchdog says it fines Facebook $271,000 for data breach

Around 300,000 application users may have been affected, says official

Reuters May 10, 2019

Turkish watchdog says it fines Facebook $271,000 for data breach. PHOTO: AFP

ISTANBUL: Turkey's Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) said on Friday it had fined Facebook a total of 1.65 million lira ($270,976.01) in April due to a data breach.

It cited a Facebook statement from December as saying that the
company had discovered a photo API bug that allowed third-party
applications to access Facebook user photos.

KVKK said that around 300,000 users in Turkey may have been affected by this data breach.

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It also said that the API bug occurred for 12 days in September last year and Facebook not intervening in time showed there were deficiencies in technical precautions regarding the issue.

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