Data of 533mn Facebook users being sold via Telegram bot
In a fresh trouble for Facebook, phone numbers of 533 million users are currently being sold via a bot on encrypted
| 28 Jan 2021 4:41 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: In a fresh trouble for Facebook, phone numbers of 533 million users are currently being sold via a bot on encrypted messaging platform Telegram, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched by the social network in 2019.
According to a report in Motherboard, the person selling the database full of Facebook users phone numbers (it s $20 per number) lets customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Alon Gal, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock first alerted about the Telegram bot selling Facebook users information. It is very worrying to see a database of that size being sold in cybercrime communities, it harms our privacy severely and will certainly be used for smishing (the fraudulent practice of sending text me
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