The personal data of more than 533 million users from 106 countries has been leaked and posted online, and names, locations and phone numbers have been made available due to a massive leak of personal data.
Αthis includes identifiers Facebook, complete names, locations, phone numbers, dates of birth and email addresses more than 32 million people in USA, 11 million users in United Kingdom and 6 million users on India.
The Business Insider examined and verified a sample of the leaked files, which Facebook claims became "due to vulnerability" that was repaired in 2019. alon gal, CTO of the Cybercrime Information Company Hudson rock, located the revelation on Saturday, explaining,
All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.
This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely that the phone number used for the account was leaked.
I have yet to see Facebook recognizing this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8
- Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021
The information, already two years old, may still provide valuable information to criminals who try to falsify or deceive people on the internet. Or, even worse, to spot them out in real life. Gal first discovered the leak in January, when someone selling file access was advertising a automated bot sharing Facebook user phone numbers - for a fee. It is now free for everyone to see.
This is not the first Facebook data leak. The fiasco with Cambridge Analytica affected up to 87 million people worldwide, and forced the social network to step up its privacy protections. Clearly, more needs to be done, given that there are now more than 533 million people whose personal information is circulating on the Web.
You can visit it haveibeenpwned to check if your email has been compromised (in this attack or in others).
There is not much that can be done Facebook, in terms of security, to help affected users, he explained Gal, in addition to warning to watch out for phishing practices or other illegal activities. «People who subscribe to a reputable company like Facebook trust their data and Facebook is supposed to treat the data with the utmost respect", Wrote o Gal in a statement published by Business Insider. «Leakage of users' personal information is a huge breach of trust and should be dealt with accordingly».
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