Facebook denies any data breach as claimed by some media reports
Paul Grewal, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook said the report of data breach was completely false. On the same day, the Guardian reported that in one of the tech giant's biggest ever data breaches, the data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters and used them to build a powerful software programme to predict and influence choices at the ballot box
Facebook data breach: A whistleblower revealed how Cambridge Analytica used personal data taken without authorisation in 2014 to build a system that could profile US voters in order to target them with political advertisements. Image source: Reuters