By Nicole Darrah, Fox News
The personal information of up to 87 million users may have been “improperly shared” with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook said on Wednesday.
The social media giant’s Chief Technology Officer, Mike Schroepfer, revealed the number in a blog post, and said the tens of millions affected were “mostly in the US.”
It was previously believed that around 50 million users were impacted by the data breach.
However, Cambridge Analytica stated that it “licensed data from [Global Science Research] for 30 million individuals, not 87 million,” and added the data mining firm “did not use GSR Facebook data or any derivatives of this data in the US presidential election.”
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