https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-botches-response-scandal-160551434.html

But what has been most disappointing is how Facebook handled the situation. When the news broke on Friday, Facebook in the same diffuse way it handled revelations that Russia had used the platform to help sway the presidential election: denied it. The social network contended this was not, in fact, a “data breach,” and that its platform performed precisely as Facebook had always intended. Instead it was an outside party — Cambridge Analytica, in this case — that violated the company’s terms of service. Translation: Facebook’s security remained intact during this incident, and none of this was Facebook’s fault. " data-reactid="25">But what has been most disappointing is how Facebook handled the situation. When the news broke on Friday, Facebook in the same diffuse way it handled revelations that Russia had used the platform to help sway the presidential election: denied it. The social network contended this was not, in fact, a “data breach,” and that its platform performed precisely as Facebook had always intended. Instead it was an outside party — Cambridge Analytica, in this case — that violated the company’s terms of service. Translation: Facebook’s security remained intact during this incident, and none of this was Facebook’s fault.

While Facebook may not have been “hacked” in the technical sense, there’s no denying that the personal data of some 50 million people was harvested unknowingly and unwillingly for means other than what those people intended, indicating there was some sort of breach, if not of the Facebook platform, then surely of those users’ privacy." data-reactid="26">While Facebook may not have been “hacked” in the technical sense, there’s no denying that the personal data of some 50 million people was harvested unknowingly and unwillingly for means other than what those people intended, indicating there was some sort of breach, if not of the Facebook platform, then surely of those users’ privacy.