Up to 45,000 Irish Facebook profiles may have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
Facebook last night admitted that 87 million people worldwide have been affected, versus the estimate of 50 million previously reported.
As little as 15 Irish Facebook users may have actually downloaded the thisisyourdigitallife app, but it's believed friends of those people have been affected.
In a statement, Facebook said:
“Our investigation shows that the people impacted were predominantly in the United States – 97.1% of users who installed the app are understood to have been primarily in the US, while 81.2% of total affected people, ie installers and their friends, were in the US,” the company said in a statement.
However, we do know that 15 people in Ireland installed thisisyourdigitallife, and up to 44,687 people in Ireland may have been friends with someone who installed the app, and, therefore, may have been affected. This represents 0.0516% of the total number of people affected."
Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg has also insisted he remains the best person to lead Facebook, despite the controversy, scandal and corruption surrounding the popular social media site in recent weeks.
