Australians impacted by the largest data breach in national history can now apply for their stake of a huge payout.
Registration for more than 311,000 Australian Facebook users for their part of a $50million settlement over the Meta’s involvement in Cambridge Analytica breach in the 2010s.
Personal information from more than 87 million Facebook profiled were harvested by the British data organisation during the breach through a third party app called the Life App.
While only 52 Australian Facebook users installed the quiz app, 311,074 users could have had their information stolen as “friends of installing Facebook users”.
To be eligible for the settlement you must have had a Facebook account from November 2, 2013 to December 17, 2015, were in Australia for more than 30 days during that

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