The perils of Facebook friendship just became painfully clear.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said Wednesday that 7,100 Facebook users in the state along with 1.7 million of their Facebook friends may have had their personal information exposed to an outside firm harvesting data for the successful political campaign of President Donald Trump.
More than 99.5 percent of them did nothing to expose their personal information on the social network.
“While we continue to await a fuller explanation about this incident from Facebook and its leadership, an important first step is getting our arms around the scale of the exposure,” said Herring, one of 37 state attorneys general who have asked specific questions about the privacy breach.
