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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
More than 500 million user data Facebook leaked in 2019 ago. The stolen data, including the account owner’s email address and phone number, has been posted online in forums. hacker.
“All the 533,000,000 data recorded on Facebook has been leaked and distributed for free,” said the chief technology officer of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hdson Rock, Alon Gal, when revealing the incident through his account of Twitter, Saturday (3/4).
“This means that if you have a Facebook account, this must be the used phone number that has been leaked,” Gal added.
However, as confirmed AFP told a Facebook spokesperson, the news of the leak was old.
“This is old data that was previously reported in 2019,” said a Facebook spokesperson.
“We found and succeeded in solving this problem in August 2019.”
Gal previously reported that at least 32 million accounts in the United States and 20 million accounts in France were affected by the Facebook leak.
“The bad guys will certainly use the information [data pribadi yang bocor] for social engineering, scam, piracy for marketing, “said Gal.
For information, this is not the first time that a data leak scandal has occurred on the world’s largest social networks. In 2016, a Cambridge Analytica scandal emerged over the use of the personal data of millions of Facebook users to target political ads.
(AFP / child)
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