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 Publicado em 03/04/2021 at 15:23 Atualizado em 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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How The Breach Was Discovered

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They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

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