Facebook sues two people to exploit the testing applications in the theft of personal user data

Facebook on Friday accused two Ukrainian men of using Quiz Apps to access and steal personal users' data, as well as injecting ads into the main news page of their accounts by exploiting these applications to develop malicious software.

The user targeting period between 2017 and 2018 enticed them to install malicious and malicious additions to the browser to infect some 63,000 Facebook users were mostly Russians and Ukrainians. According to the lawsuit filed against them they were working on 4 different applications including FQuiz and Supertest in addition to convincing competitions questions about movies or characters Famous, and also sold 81,000 private messages to users last year.

As is well known, the applications of questions and contests play on the tendon of the user's passion and love curiosity and knowledge of some details, for example, sharing to see who is the most famous characters like him or what he has the luck in the coming days and many more seen by users of the platform daily, Very limited information when sharing via the login feature of their Facebook account.

In the previous case, however, the application enticed users to install some browser plug-ins, which in turn allowed hackers to "access" Facebook account information, not only to access their account information in other social networks.