The data of 500 million Facebook users, including Zuckerberg’s number, has been hacked
The personal information of more than 533 million Facebook users was made public in a low-level hacking forum, according to Business Insider. Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million users in the US, 11 million in the UK and 6 million in India, had their Facebook IDs, full names, phone numbers, locations, dates of birth, biographies and, in some cases, email addresses, leaked online. Among the data stolen from the media is the private cell phone number of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO.
Business Insider looked at a sample of the leaked data and matched the phone numbers of known Facebook users to the IDs listed in the dataset. Indeed, it is real and private data.
Alon Gal, CTO of the Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence company, was one of the first to post about the leak. On Saturday morning he tweeted:
All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.
This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked.
I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8
– Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021
All 533,000,000 were distributed for free in the forum, demonstrating that it was only a demonstration of the ability of the hackers and weakness of the protection systems.
"A database of that size containing private information such as the phone numbers of many Facebook users would surely lead to bad guys taking advantage of the data to perform social engineering attacks [or] hacking attempts," Gal told Insider, adding. that he first discovered the leak in January on a low-level hacking forum.
This isn't the first time Facebook has dealt with hackers exposing users' personal information. Over the years, millions of people's personal information has been taken from Facebook's servers.
Gal warned that there isn't much Facebook can do at this point because their credentials are already online. The disaster is done. One more reason to leave FB
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