Personal
data from 533 million Facebook accounts has reportedly leaked online, according
to security researcher Alon Gal, the co-founder and CTO of Hudson Rock -- a cybercrime
intelligence firm, who discovered the data leak on Saturday.
“The exposed
data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106
countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on
users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India,” according to Insider.
“It includes
their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and
— in some cases — email addresses.”
The data
leak threatens to undermine Facebook’s business model of gathering a large
amount of personal information and using that to sell targeted ads.
For more
info, go to:
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2021/04/04/leaker-says-they-are-offering-private-details-of-500-million-facebook-users
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