Facebook will sue former employee Alexander Solonchenko for allegedly stealing personal data from more than 178 million users of that social network. Solonchenko is accused of having abused a feature of the Messenger application, a feature that allows importing and associating phone contacts with existing accounts on that platform.
According to the news from The Record Media, the current former Facebook employee will have resorted to an automatic tool to generate telephone numbers that were later associated with existing profiles. Whenever the social network returned a positive result, Solonchenko collected the user's available personal data.
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Solonchenko conducted this abusive scheme from January 2018 to September 2019, whereupon the same data was then sold on the black market in December of last year.
The social network says that Solonchenko carried out a similar attack with the records of a large Ukrainian bank.
Facebook claims that inestimable and irreparable damage was caused to its institution.
