Facebook Data Leak: Here's how you can check if your Facebook data has been leaked by Cambridge Analytica

Facebook is facing a lot of criticism in the case of a data breach, Now the company has started to take several moves to restore the faith of its users along with tightening the security. Among the 800 million users, the 5,62,455 Indian users also compromised their data in recent data leak. Facebook will send a notification to all the affected users. In the context of the data leak scandal, from now Facebook is going to display the information of all the apps, a Facebook user is using. Users will get all the information about the amount of personal data they have shared with any app. Alongside, they will also get a notification if Cambridge Analytica has used their data.

Users affected by the data leak will get a link on Facebook, by following the link users will be able to delete all the apps from their account. Then these apps will not be able to use your data again. Apart from this, Facebook will share one more link, where you can know the information about all the apps you are using.

According to the Facebook, the most number of users who have compromised their data are Americans, about 7 crore Americans data has been leaked in this breach. After that Philippines, Indonesia, and the UK are the most affected countries by data leak scandal. Whereas, 5,62,455 users are Indians. However, The Cambridge Analytica employees are held responsible for leaking the data with the help of an App.

How to know: This data has been leaked by ‘Your digital life’ app, People using this app is among the victim of data leak. By clicking on the link here, you can know if your data has been shared with Cambridge Analytica. And by clicking here you can know about the apps you are using in your account.