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In a major security breach, 533 million phone numbers and personal data of Facebook users were leaked online.
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The data collected from 106 countries reportedly includes full names, locations, dates of birth, biographies, and email addresses. Source: 1 NEWS
The exposed data collected from 106 countries includes their full names, locations, dates of birth, biographies, and email addresses.
A Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider Australia that the leak was removed from the site due to an earlier vulnerability that the social media giant fixed in 2019.
The platform had promised to toughen up against massive data scraping after the Cambridge Analytica scandal saw the data of 80 million users taken.
Now the dataset, which is a couple of years old, has been posted on a low-level hacking forum, making it available to anyone with the skills to unzip it.
Cybercriminals could use the information to impersonate users or scam users with their personal information that is now publicly available.
