Ukrainians will answer to Facebook for “cookies”
Facebook sued two developers, who are citizens of Ukraine, for theft of personal data.
It is reported “Durov Code“, citing The Verge.
It is noted that the company spent more than 75 thousand dollars on the investigation and accused the developers of causing irreparable harm to Facebook’s reputation.
It is indicated that Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrei Gorbachev from 2017 to 2018 managed four online applications with tests that were advertised on social networks and collected personal data of users.
Both suspects work for the Web Sun Group, which, according to the Ukrainian publication AIN, is an outsourcing IT company whose office is located in Kyiv and employs up to 200 specialists.
Sluchevsky calls himself the founder of the company; together with Gorbachev, he worked on online applications “Supertest”, “FQuiz”, “Megatest” and “Cookie”.
Advertisements for these services, which were created for Russian and Ukrainian audiences, invited Facebook users to take various tests, for example: “Which modern vampire are you,” “What kind of dog are you according to your zodiac sign,” “Who is your double from the past”:
The services prompted users to enable browser notifications that recommended special extensions to work with. It turned out that these extensions collected personal data from user accounts without their knowledge and showed their own advertisements in their Facebook feeds.
The company's lawsuit says the hackers hacked into public profile information and non-visible friend lists of the user.
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