According to Business Insider’s report, many personal information is also included in the users’ data. A Facebook spokesperson said that, the data of crores of users was leaked from the Facebook server in the year 2019, which we fixed the same year.
Facebook Data Leak
A very big case of privacy leak is coming out in which data of crores of Facebook users has been leaked. The data of about 53.3 crore Facebook users has been leaked. This leak contains data of users from 106 countries, which have been hacked and posted online. This data leak includes people’s phone numbers, Facebook ID, full name, location, birth date and email address. In this leak, 32 million users of US, 1.1 crore users of UK, 60 lakh users of India are included.
According to Business Insider’s report, many personal information is also included in the users’ data. A Facebook spokesperson said that, the data of crores of users was leaked from the Facebook server in the year 2019, which we fixed the same year. Alon Gal, CTO of Cybercrime Intelligence Hudson Rock, said that, even though the data was leaked many years ago, it is still very important information for cybercrime, which has been leaked online.
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
Gal further said that, with the help of personal information of the people, hackers will take advantage of this and will further cyber attack. He further said that, Facebook cannot do much in this matter at the moment. But yes the company should stop those open sources from where data are leaking as soon as possible.
Let me tell you, questions have been arising on Facebook for many years about the safety of the information of the people. In 2018, the social media company stopped the facility to search user accounts via phone number after the revelation that the political company ‘Cambridge Analytica’ obtained the information of eight and seven million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent. .
This is the second such instance within 10 days in India where claims are being leaked of the user database of a company. Earlier this week, details of 100 million users of Gurgaon-based mobile payment and digital wallet company Mobikwik were leaked on Tuesday and were being sold on Darkweb.
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