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They are freely available on the Internet, 377 thousand Hungarian users are affected.
There’s a huge scandal breaking out on Facebook, with Business Insider reporting that the data of 553 million Facebook users is available completely free of charge on a relatively unknown hacker forum. Most of the information in the database is publicly searchable and searchable (e.g. name, city, country, date of birth, email address), the real problem is leaking phone numbers of companies victims. Fortunately, the passwords are not included in the database.
Facebook said the data, which is now freely available, was stolen in 2019 through a vulnerability. The published database contains the data of a total of 553 million Facebook users around the world, and more than 377 thousand Hungarian users are involved.
Information that is freely available may be better used for phishing, but it is not necessarily impossible to commit personalized crimes, even a SIM swapping attack. In the latter, scammers take control of the phone numbers of others to get their two-step identification codes sent in an SMS so they can transfer money from their bank accounts.
At the beginning of 2020, a vulnerability was exploited that allowed the phone number linked to each Facebook account to be viewed, creating a database containing the information of 533 million users in all countries.
It was very little informed and today the database became much more worrisome 1/2 pic.twitter.com/ryQ5HuF1Cm
– Alon Gal (Under the Gap) (@UnderTheBreach) January 14, 2021
Additionally, spammers, dirty advertisers, and telemarketers can use the information.
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