Data of 533 million Facebook users leaked

A user of one of the hacking forums published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free. The freely distributed database includes the personal information of more than 533 million Facebook users. This includes phone numbers, IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth and sometimes email addresses. Previously, user numbers from this database were sold through a bot.

The database contains data from 106 countries; including 32 million from the US, 11 million from the UK and 6 million from India. Business Insider verified the accuracy of several verified records by matching the phone numbers of prominent Facebook users to IDs in the database. The reporters also confirmed that the email addresses used to reset the Facebook password were correct; this feature can also be used to partially reveal a user's phone number.

 

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Facebook data breach

Витік надає кіберзлочинцям цінну інформацію, яка може бути використана для видавання себе за іншу особу або шахрайського отримання облікових даних користувача. Алон Гал, технічний директор розвідувальної фірми з питань кіберзлочинності Хадсон Рок, який виявив витік, сказав: «База даних такого розміру, що містить особисту інформацію, таку як телефонні номери багатьох користувачів Facebook, безумовно, змусить зловмисників використовувати ці дані для здійснення атак пов’язані із соціальною інженерією чи спробами злому ».

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Alon Gal first discovered the data breach in January; when a user on a hacker forum advertised an automated bot that could provide phone numbers for hundreds of millions of Facebook users for a price. Some sources reported the existence of this bot and confirmed that the data it gave out was true.

The entire dataset is now available on the hacker forum for free; making it accessible to anyone with basic data skills. This is not the first time that a huge number of Facebook users' phone numbers have been found online.

Facebook can do little to help users affected by the breach; as the data is already publicly available.

“Особи, які підписуються в такій поважній компанії, як Facebook, довіряють їм свої дані, і Facebook [повинен] ставитися до цих даних з максимальною повагою”, – сказав Гал. “Витік особистої інформації користувачів, є величезним порушенням довіри, і з цим слід поводитись відповідно”.

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