Telephone numbers and personal data of more than 553 million Facebook users have been posted online for free by a user on a low-level hacking forum, according to Business Insider. At least 100 countries are included in this leak. There is data for 32 million users in the United States and 11 million users in the United Kingdom, unless it is known at the moment.
Facebook has a very big problem with this leak. In Spain more than 10 million data exposed.
Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, exclusively discovered the filtered data and in this regard it has stated:
A database of that size containing private information, such as the phone numbers of many Facebook users, would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social engineering attacks and / or hacking attempts.
https://twitter.com/UnderTheBreach/status/1378314424239460352?s=20
This security breach includes phone numbers, full names, locations, dates of birth, biographies, and in some cases, email addresses.
Business Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified multiple records. By matching the phone numbers of known Facebook users with the IDs listed in the dataset. The logs were also verified by testing the email addresses from the dataset in Facebook's password reset feature. Can be used for Partially reveal a user's phone number.
It is not the first time that Facebook has these problems. Now we don't know how good old Mark can attack apple about the privacy of your business, as you have been doing until now. Taking into account this leak, Facebook's position has become more vulnerable and weak to be able to demand certain things from others. And this leak may be far worse than the Cambridge Analytica scandal and that is to say.
En Spain there have been exactly 10.894.206 exposed users by this leak. Below you can see the data country by country.
Full list of affected users by country pic.twitter.com/Wrrzd0WyxE
- Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) January 14, 2021
Every time I understand this blog less. There is more talk about iOS and other topics like Facebook (which does not paint anything) than about Mac in general.