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Data from more than 500 million Facebook users stemming from a 2019 leak, including email addresses and phone numbers, were posted on a hacker forum, the Business Insider magazine, confirming information from a cybercrime expert.
“The records of 533 million Facebook accounts have just been revealed for free,” he tweeted. Alon Gal, Technical Director, Hudson Rock Cybercrime Agency on Saturday morning, criticizing the “utter negligence” of Facebook.
Business Insider says it was able to verify that some leaked phone numbers still belonged to the owners of the affected Facebook accounts.
Facebook’s 533,000,000 records were leaked for free.
This means that if you have a Facebook account, the phone number used for the account has most likely been leaked.
I have yet to see Facebook acknowledge this utter neglect of their data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8
– Alon Gal (Under the Gap) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021
“This is old data” whose leak “had already been reported in the media in 2019. We found and repaired this problem in August 2019,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP.
This data includes phone number, full name, date of birth and, for some accounts, email address, according to Business Insider.
Malicious people “will surely use this information for scams, hacking and marketing,” said the cybercrime expert.
Among those affected there would be about 7 million Chilean accounts, according to Twitter users.
And here is Chile 🇨🇱 again on the map, with almost 7 million records 😱😱
Among the data you can see the cell phone number, full name, address, marital status, account creation date, company and more.
Phishing? Smishing? Social engineering?
DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK! https://t.co/bWkpoX9o1W pic.twitter.com/VG04fO8HcT– Germán Fernández 🇨🇱 (@ 1ZRR4H) April 3, 2021
This is not the first time that data from millions of users of the world’s leading social network, which has almost 2.8 billion monthly users, has been put online.
Revealed in 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a British firm that captured the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users for political propaganda purposes, had tarnished the social network’s reputation on data privacy.
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