Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked, Including Mark Zuckerberg's

Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked online, Including Mark Zuckerberg's own personal details together with his cell number: +1.650.64XX.XXXX

For the last couple of years, a Facebook database containing the personal and contact information of more than 500 million users kept popping up on several hacker forums where threat actors offered the data for $30,000.

Now, another database with records of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries has been leaked online.

Facebook’s response to Saturday’s news of a huge data leak was awful.

On Twitter, Facebook spokesperson Liz Bourgeois responded to a handful of news articles and posts about this leak by tweeting the same two-sentence statement: “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019.”

In other words, Facebook is responsible for a few hundred million users having their data leaked yet again (seriously, how many times is this now?), but don’t worry, it’s fine — they fixed the problem a long time ago. Not that this does anything to help un-leak the data that’s now in hackers hands, but, hey, Facebook did its part!

What is in the leaked data?

It can be confirmed that the database is available on several Telegram channels along with hacker forums. The good news is that no passwords were leaked however, an in-depth analysis of the records will be published later. As of now, the database contains the following information:

  • Full names
  • Genders
  • City
  • Country
  • Phone numbers
  • Email addresses
  • Marital status
  • Service provider
  • Facebook profile UIDs
  • Facebook profile links
  • Educational institution
  • Details from About section
  • Occupation (Job description)

Was Facebook hacked or that’s data scrapping?

No, Facebook was not hacked neither were its servers breached to steal your data. This database is the result of web data scrapping which depending on its use is an illegal technique in which a computer program (bots) extracts data from a website. 

Remember, third-party firms can use data scrapping, a fairly common practice to extract the personal information of users from websites like Facebook or Twitter. Facebook in particular allows users to access third-party websites by using their existing Facebook login information. 

This information can be accessed by cybercriminals in case proper security measures are not implemented. For instance, malicious elements can use ‘scraper bots’ to extract private information anonymously.

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