Facebook has declined to accept responsibility in a recent hack that compromised the phone numbers of 533 million users.
In an April 6th blog post, Facebook product management director Mike Clark attempted to address the hack, which was first discovered on April 3rd by Alan Gal, of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock.
Gal noted that birth dates, locations, email addresses and more were leaked on top of the phone numbers. In particular, 3.5 million Canadians were affected, says Gal.
However, Facebook is now downplaying what happened while ostensibly attributing blame to the users who had their information leaked.
âIt is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,â Clark wrote.
Personal information of 533 million Facebook users leaks online
The leaked information includes phone numbers, locations, past locations, birth dates and more
The personal information of 533 million Facebook users has been leaked and posted online in a forum for free.
The leak was discovered by Alan Gal, the CTO of Hudson Rock, a cybercrime intelligence firm on April 3rd. Gal notes that the leaked information includes phone numbers, locations, past locations, birth dates, email addresses and other personal data.
âAll 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for that account was leaked,â Gal tweeted.
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