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The revelation that 533 million previously stolen Facebook account records have been made public on a darknet forum should inspire organizations to take aggressive action to further protect customer data security, some security experts say.
Although the data posted on the forum is several years old, it still poses risks because so much of it, including telephone numbers, is likely still valid, says Lorrie Cranor, director of the Cylab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. This breach did not leak passwords or financial account information, but it leaked information that can certainly be of use to identity thieves and make it easier for them to impersonate people and compromise their accounts, Cranor says. Organizations should check their password reset processes and make sure that the breached
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