Daniel Adeyemi
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On Saturday, the personal data of over 533 million Facebook users were published in an online forum used by cybercriminals.
“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. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and – in some cases – email addresses.” According to Business Insider.
It’s not clear how many users in Africa were affected. The last time a data breach happened was in 2018, 96,134 South African users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach.