# Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian

<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election>

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## What Jamie wrote

This should surprise nobody, but I hope it does. When I was building apps on Facebook I got to see how easy it is to get this amount of data from people. It’s shockingly simple.

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