Facebook, the socio-networking giant, placed some of its developers on a six month suspension for suspicion that they have been involved in selling the user information to a data broker from app development.

The announcement made by Facebook on its developer blog, follows the revelation that many of its apps were transmitting user IDs, which can be used to look up users’ names and, other times, the names of the app user’s friends, not more than 25 advertising and data films.

The socio-network giant is yet to know the data broker who was buying the user information but did say it had reached an agreement with Rapleaf, which is based in San Francisco and does data aggregation and was previously identified for receiving user information.

Rapleaf has accepted to delete all user ID information in its possession and agreed not to conduct any other activity, which may jeopardize the Facebook image, the Socio-network company posted. The blog was silent on if Rapleaf was indeed the broker involved in the sale of the user information, to add to that neither did Rapleaf representatives comment in the issue immediately.

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