A class-action suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging Facebook did not properly inform users about data risks related to its single sign-on tool, which was the source of the social network's 2018 data breach, Reuters reports. The claim argues that while users were not informed of the risks that ultimately led to accounts being taken over, Facebook's employees were allegedly aware of them. "Facebook knew about the access token vulnerability and failed to fix it for years, despite that knowledge," the plaintiffs said in their filing.
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