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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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Alon Gal, director of Hudson Rock, an online security company, emphasized the concern about the data leak: ”A database of this size containing private information, such as phone numbers of many Facebook users, will certainly lead to wrongdoers taking advantage of the data to carry out attacks”.
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.
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