Using Facebook? It seems that all your personal information and phone number have been put up for auction online.
553 million i.e., 50 crore users’ Facebook data has been leaked. Facebook data for hackers is being advertised as being made available on a website.
Phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, location, date of birth, and email addresses of Facebook users in 106 countries have been leaked online. Facebook says about 1.1 crore users have been affected by the data leak.
However, Facebook has a reputation for leaking users’ data. Facebook also removed the option of searching users by phone numbers in 2018.
Facebook made the decision after the Cambridge Analytics controversy. The news that Cambridge Analytics had collected the information of 8.7 crores Facebook users was alarming at the time.
However, Facebook clarified that the leaked data was very old, that they received the information in 2019, and that the issue was resolved in August 2019.
This time the data leak is of large-scale is currently causing a stir among Facebook users.
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Alon Gal, Hudson Rock’s co-founder, and the chief technical officer was the first person to bring up the issue.
Gal again shared the info of the leaked database in a new Twitter post on Sunday and said that if someone had a Facebook account it was extremely likely that the data was leaked. Details of 5.5 lakh Afghanistan users, 1.2 million Australian users, 3.8 million of Bangladesh, 8 million Brazil, and 6.1 million of India were put on various forums free of charge, according to the database of the recent suspected Leak.
Facebook did not reply to a mail seeking answers on the allegedly free database. Some of the data from the latest database were independently verified by the Sunday Express.
This is the second big data leak for Indians as earlier this week one of the digital wallet company Mobikwik leaked 3.5 million users’ data.
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