Inquiries into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Token Breach)

The breach arose from MPIL’s use of user tokens in connection with certain features on the Facebook platform. User tokens are coded identifiers that can be used to verify the user of a platform or utility, and to control access to particular platform features and personal data of the user and their contacts. In 2017 MPIL introduced a new video uploading feature. When used in conjunction with Facebook’s ‘View As’ feature (which allows a user’s page to be viewed as another user would see it) and t