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Data on more than 500 million users Facebook accounts, including email addresses and phone numbers, were posted on a hacking forum, according to a Business Insider magazine report published on Saturday (3).
“The 533 million Facebook account records were just posted for free,” tweeted Alon Gal, technical director of cybercrime agency Hudson Rock, criticizing Facebook’s “total negligence.”
Business Insider says that managed to verify that some leaked phone numbers still belonged to the owners of the affected Facebook accounts.
“This is old data”, the leak of which “had already been reported in the media in 2019. We found and fixed this problem in August 2019,” said a Facebook spokesperson.
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Those The data includes the phone number, full name, date of birth, and, for some accounts, email address., according to “Business Insider.”
This is not the first time that the data of millions of users of the social network, which has almost 2.8 billion monthly users, has been available online.
Revealed in 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a British company that captured the personal data of millions of Facebook users for political advertising, had already denounced a leak carried out by the social network.
