Facebook (Meta) adds scraping attacks to Bug Bounty Program

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Meta (formally Facebook) has announced that its existing Bug Bounty program will expand to include scraping attacks.

Data scraping is a procedure that lets attackers gather bulk data of any Facebook user that has the profile set to public, and sometimes even from private accounts.

“We will reward reports of unprotected or openly public databases containing at least 100,000 unique Facebook user records with PII or sensitive data (e.g. email, phone number, physical address, religious or political affiliation). The reported dataset must be unique and not previously known or reported to Meta,” the company added.

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