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Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum
NOTE: This is unrelated to the currently ongoing Facebook outage.https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum/
Updated: 4 October 2021
The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.
This constitutes the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date.
It is seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump, where 500 million users were affected.
Highlights:
Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.
Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.
Data appears to be authentic.
Personal data obtained through web scraping.
Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.
Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.
In late September 2021, a user of a known hacker forum posted an announcement claiming to possess the personal data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users. The data is currently up for sale on the respective forum platform, with potential buyers having the opportunity to purchase all the data at once or in smaller quantities.
One prospective buyer claims to have been quoted $5,000 for the data of 1 million Facebook user accounts.
This constitutes the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date.
It is seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump, where 500 million users were affected.
Highlights:
Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.
Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.
Data appears to be authentic.
Personal data obtained through web scraping.
Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.
Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.
In late September 2021, a user of a known hacker forum posted an announcement claiming to possess the personal data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users. The data is currently up for sale on the respective forum platform, with potential buyers having the opportunity to purchase all the data at once or in smaller quantities.
One prospective buyer claims to have been quoted $5,000 for the data of 1 million Facebook user accounts.
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