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The site said the data includes personal information for more than 533 million users on the blue social media giant from 106 countries, including more than 32 million in the United States, 11 million in Britain and 6 million in India. While Lebanese activists said that the hacking included more than 1.8 million accounts in Lebanon.
The data released also included users’ phone numbers, their Facebook IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth, resumes, and in some cases email addresses.
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
The site reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified numerous records by matching the phone numbers of Vibesock users with the identifiers included in the compromised data set. It also investigates compromised data by testing the email addresses from the dataset in Facebook’s password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal the user’s phone number.
The leaked data could provide valuable information to hackers who use the information to impersonate, according to Alon Gal, chief information systems expert at cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, who first discovered the leaked data in January.
Then Motherboard talked about it and made sure the data was really real. But the difference then was that the data was available for a cheap price, but today it is available for free.
“A database of this size containing private information such as the phone numbers of many Facebook users will definitely lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to carry out hacking attacks,” Gal explained, noting that this does not it is the first time that a large number of numbers have been found. The phones of Facebook users are exposed on the Internet.
In 2019, a vulnerability allowed millions of Facebook servers to be exposed. At the time, the social media giant said the vulnerability was fixed in August of that year and vowed to crack down on data collection.
According to Gal, from a security standpoint, Facebook doesn’t have many options to help those affected by the breach because their data has already been leaked. But Facebook, which has not yet commented on the issue, can at least notify users about the problem, so that they remain alert to possible phishing schemes or fraudulent use of their personal data.
Gal commented that people who sign up with a major company like “Facebook” trust that their data will be retained and that the company will treat that data with great respect and therefore leakage of user personal information is a major violation of trust and should be dealt with accordingly.
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