Breaking Facebook Huge Data Breach 2021

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• The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
• The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
• Security researchers warn that the data could be used by hackers to impersonate people and commit fraud.

533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses.

www.businessinsider.in

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1378314424239460352

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[TheCapedCrusader]

Sad life, mark uncle thought to sell it for money but it got leaked for free

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1379284279163686913

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The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned

The headline is pretty self-explanatory so in the interest of time, let me just jump directly into the details of how this all works. There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned...

www.troyhunt.com

 

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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database, and does not currently have plans to do so, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

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