They say that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. We can safely add a third party: Facebook is careless with user data and makes fun of your privacy. A recent Business Insider report claims how the personal data of 533 million Facebook users has been leaked online. Here’s what it means for Facebook users in India and everything you need to know about data ‘leak’.
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The data of 533 million Facebook users, from 106 countries, has been leaked for free in a hacking forum
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According to the report, a total of 6 million Indian user data is part of the massive online leak.
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Apart from India, the United States and the United Kingdom appear to have been the most affected. Data has been leaked for 32 million US users and 11 million UK users.
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The leaked personal data includes phone numbers, locations, date of birth, Facebook ID, and user bio. Some email addresses have also been leaked
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Cybercriminals can easily access this data to scam users or even impersonate them online.
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The data leak was discovered by Alon Gal, CTO, Hudson Rock, a cybercrime intelligence firm.
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In January of this year, Gal revealed that the data was being advertised by a Telegram bot in exchange for money.
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However, the data is now freely available and could end up in the wrong hands.
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Facebook, so far, has not commented on the data breach.
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