Bombshell: Facebook Data Leak Affects 8 Million Brazilians; Worldwide, It's 533 Million People

Bombshell: Facebook Data Leak Affects 8 Million Brazilians; Worldwide, It’s 533 Million People

Written by Fabio Lucas Carvalho

Published on 03/04/2021 at 15:23

Updated on 03/04/2021 at 15:32

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Another scandal on Facebook. According to the news portal Business Insider, a low-level user on a forum freely published data on hundreds of millions of people. The data could be viewed by any person, free of charge and without limits.

The data published on the hacker forum includes information on no less than 533 million Facebook users. The data comes from 106 countries. The countries with the most data exposed were the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. The data contained phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, birth dates, emails, etc. Brazil had a total of 8 million individuals with exposed data online.

Data Breach of Millions of Facebook Users Is Concerning

The amount of data leaked from Facebook is astounding. Highly detailed, the information puts users’ security at risk. Cybercriminals will have a field day with valuable information to commit crimes and online fraud.

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How The Breach Was Discovered

Gal told Insider that he discovered the leaked Facebook data in January when a user in the hacker group offered a bot that could generate data on millions of people on Facebook in exchange for a monetary value. Gal confirmed that the data was real at the time. If it was previously charged, it no longer is. The complete data was released in the group, and everyone had wide access to all the information contained there.

In 2019, something similar happened with Facebook. Data from millions of users was leaked, leaving many individuals exposed to crimes and fraud involving their names.

Bombshell: Facebook Data Leak Affects 8 Million Brazilians; Worldwide, It’s 533 Million People

Data Breach of Millions of Facebook Users Is Concerning

How The Breach Was Discovered

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Bombshell: Facebook Data Leak Affects 8 Million Brazilians; Worldwide, It’s 533 Million People

Data Breach of Millions of Facebook Users Is Concerning

How The Breach Was Discovered

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

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Four times faster than the Concorde, capable of taking passengers from New York to London in less than an hour at Mach 5.5, and with an engine that switches from turbojet to ramjet mid-flight at Mach 3.5, the Hermeus Quarterhorse went from paper to its first flight in just 19 months.

Under nearly 2 kilometers of ice in Antarctica, scientists have discovered an ancient landscape sculpted by rivers up to 60 million years ago, the size of Wales, preserved as a time capsule that could help predict the advance of ice towards the ocean.

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