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More Than 1 Million Kentucky Facebook Users Impacted by Data Breach

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Kentucky was one of the states that contacted Facebook requesting information on how many residents have been affected by the recent privacy breach when Cambridge Analytica got access to the personal data of an estimated 87 million people. 

Now the state numbers are in.

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is reporting that more than 1.3 million people in the state have been impacted by the Facebook data breach.

Beshear was one of a group of attorneys general who sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in March out of concern that personal information was provided without permission to Cambridge Analytica.

The political data firm was hired by President Trump’s 2016 election campaign and gained access to millions of Facebook users information, reportedly to influence their voting behavior.

In Indiana, 1.6 million residents were impacted. In Tennessee, 1.7 million residents were affected by the Facebook data breach. 

Rhonda Miller began as reporter and host for All Things Considered on WKU Public Radio in 2015. She has worked as Gulf Coast reporter for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, where she won Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow and Green Eyeshade awards for stories on dead sea turtles, health and legal issues arising from the 2010 BP oil spill and homeless veterans.
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