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2021-04-04 Cyber

'Huge ~~Sale~~ Breach' - Personal Data Of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online

[ZERO] Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a low-level hacking forum, according to Business Insider. Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 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, birthdates, bios, and in some cases, email addresses, leaked online.

Insider journalists examined the leaked data and confirmed several Facebook users' data matched up with the leaked data on the list.

Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users' phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook's password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user's phone number. -Insider

Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, has been one of the first to post about the leak. He tweeted Saturday morning:

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.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-04 08:15|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 All533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

Please, please, NOTHING is free.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-04 08:21|| 2021-04-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I still always laugh when people say they can't trust me because I'm not on FartBook or StinkedIn.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-04 08:30|| 2021-04-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 So, your name and a phone number are floating around the innertubes for free. But there are still a bunch of sites that want to sell that information for a monthly $12.95 subscription...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-04 08:32|| 2021-04-04 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ I have always found 'private' people, people who mind their own business and avoid celebrity.... are the most trustworthy of people.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-04 08:35|| 2021-04-04 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 trustworthy?
Maybe not, but known, controllable risks within certain limits of performance expectation.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-04 18:25|| 2021-04-04 18:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I de-friended (dumped) Fakebook 4-1/2 months ago because of their shenanigans (selective censorship and other things) in the 2020 election. F$ck em.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-04-04 18:38|| 2021-04-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I sent the Farcebook link to a friend (and virulent Farcebook hater). His response was multiple HA HA HA's.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-04 22:03|| 2021-04-04 22:03|| Front Page Top

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