Another big data leak of Facebook, phone numbers and personal information of more than 53 crore users came out
Another big data leak case of Facebook has come out. In the new case, about 53.3 crore (533 million) users' phone numbers and personal information have been leaked online. On Saturday, a low-level hacking firm released private data of millions of clients online for nothing. The spilled data is of 53.3 million clients from 106 nations
These new data leaks of Facebook have data of about 32 million American users, 11 million UK users and 6 million Indian users. These information incorporate clients' telephone numbers, Facebook ID, complete name, area, birthday, bio, and so forth E-mail addresses of some users have also surfaced in this data leak Were done. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, first reported about this latest data leak from Facebook.
Alon Gal has shared information about this mega data leak from his Twitter handle.
Due to this data leak of Facebook, the phone numbers of the users can be caught by the hackers, which can be used for online fraud. According to the cyber security firm, this data of Facebook users was leaked in January, in which phone numbers of millions of Facebook users were being sold with the help of automated bots.
The data set of Facebook clients spilled in January has now been released on the web
Alon Gal claims that this is the same database that was leaked in January. The mess of the social media platform was patched in August 2019, after which this database was scrapped.
Cambridge Analytica Case
However, this is not the first time that data from Facebook users has been leaked like this. Earlier in 2018, a case of Cambridge Analytica came to light, in which the use of data of 80 million users was leaked in violation of the company's term of service.
This information was utilized for political publicizing in the 2016 US political decision. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg later had to explain the data dispute.