Facebook suspends 400 apps in developer data investigation

The logo of Facebook Inc. sits on an Apple Inc. iPhone smartphone in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. The NYSE FANG+ Index is an equal-dollar weighted index designed to represent a segment of the technology and consumer discretionary sectors consisting of highly-traded growth stocks of technology and tech-enabled companies. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Facebook Inc said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March. 

That’s about double the number the company earlier said it had pulled. Facebook made the moves “due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used – which we are now investigating in much greater depth,” the company said in a blog post Aug 22.