A leaker says they’re providing data on greater than 500 million Facebook customers – together with cellphone numbers and different information – just about without spending a dime. The database seems to be the identical set of Facebook-linked phone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard, in keeping with Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence agency Hudson Rock.
Reuters was not instantly capable of vet the knowledge, which is being supplied for a couple of euros’ value of digital credit score on a well known web site for low-level hackers, however Gal stated on Saturday that he had verified the authenticity of no less than some of the info by evaluating it in opposition to cellphone numbers of individuals he knew. Other journalists say they’ve additionally been capable of match recognized cellphone numbers to the main points in the info dump.
In an announcement, Facebook stated that the info was “very old” and associated to a difficulty that it had mounted in August 2019. An try by Reuters to achieve the leaker over the messaging service Telegram was not instantly profitable.
All 533,000,000 Facebook information had been simply leaked without spending a dime.This signifies that when you’ve got a Facebook account, this can be very doubtless the cellphone quantity used for the account was leaked.
I’ve but to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your information. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8
— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021
Gal instructed Reuters that Facebook customers needs to be alert to “social engineering attacks” by individuals who could have obtained their cellphone numbers or different personal information in the approaching months. News of the most recent leak was first reported by Business Insider.
