Facebook Tries to Scrape Its Way Through Another Breach
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ISSUE DATE: April 19, 2021
UPDATED: April 9, 2021 22:47 IST
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The latest Facebook data breach, which reportedly compromised the personal data of over 533 million users, including 6.1 million Indians, has once again focused attention on the social media behemoth’s apparent laxity in protecting the privacy of its users and, more importantly, lack of accountability towards them. In January, Alon Gal, chief technology officer at cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, discovered the leaked data when a user in a hacking forum advertised an automated bot that could provide phone numbers for hundreds of millions of Facebook users for a price. Now, the entire dataset, which includes details like phone number, Facebook ID, name, location, email ID, relationship status and bio, has been posted on the hacking forum for free.
Massive data breach leads to leak of 533 million Facebook user accounts, but Facebook won t even alert its own users
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