In the same year, Facebook entered into a consent decree with the FTC, agreeing that it would not deceive its users by promising that certain information would remain private on their profiles. The fee would likely be a consequence of breaches like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the company was found negligent in its oversight of the ways third-party applications access user data on the platform. Around 87 million users in the case of Cambridge Analytica had their private information accessed by the political consulting firm. An app maker collected the information and then packaged and sold it. Last March the FTC first opened its investigative probe into Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica breach and other subsequent breaches, like one in the following months where a hacker was able to access data from 29 million accounts. If Facebook and the FTC don't come to some kind of agreement over the fine, over its past negligence concerning user privacy the agency could decide to bring Facebook to court.