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.
NEW DELHI: Personal data of nearly 533 million (53.3 crore) Facebook users, including 61 lakh Indians, remerged online after a hacker posted the details on a digital forum.
The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details.
The easy availability of such data may make users more vulnerable to cybercrime, although Facebook has said that this is old data . All 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 the account was leaked, tweeted Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock.
Facebook data of 61 lakh Indians among over 53 cr users leaked
The easy availability of such data may make users more vulnerable to cybercrime, although Facebook has said that this is old data .
By IANS| Posted by Minhaj Adnan | Published: 5th April 2021 5:39 pm IST
New Delhi: Personal data of nearly 533 million (53.3 crore) Facebook users, including 61 lakh Indians, remerged online after a hacker posted the details on a digital forum.
The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details.
The easy availability of such data may make users more vulnerable to cybercrime, although Facebook has said that this is “old data”.
Personal data of nearly 533 million (53.3 crore) Facebook users, including 61 lakh Indians, remerged online after a hacker posted the details on a digital forum.
A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users about a fifth of the social networking platform s entire user base including over 61 lakh Indian users which has been dumped on a public cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details. All 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 the account was leaked, tweeted Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock.