As many as 87 Million Facebook account have been reported to have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal that is currently rocking the entire world.
The organization has come under fire in recent times for allegedly tampering with data and elections including the 2015 one in Nigeria where they were said to have hacked into Buhari’s records in a bid topple his candidacy and install Goodluck Jonathan as the winner of the election.
It was initially believed that 50 million accounts were compromised while trying to gather information and know the right ads to display for certain people.
But, Facebook revealed that an additional 37 million accounts were compromised which makes this a bigger problem than initially feared.
The data was harvested through a survey app, which recorded data from users who installed it, including publicly available data from their Facebook friends.
In an effort to combat this, Facebook announced that they will be rolling out a new feature which will be available from Monday, April 9 and will allow users to check which apps they have installed on their accounts, and what data they’ve shared with developers.
Users will also be able to check if their account is among the 87 million likely to have been shared with Cambridge Analytica.