The database, which was first leaked in 2019, was initially being sold on instant messaging platform Telegram for a fee of $20 per search. Facebook had then said that it had patched the vulnerability that has caused the leak.
In a major breach of privacy, personal details of nearly 533 million Facebook users from more than a 100 countries were allegedly leaked online and posted for free on low level hacking forums, according to multiple sources. The leaked details include names, gender, occupation, marital and relationship status, the date of joining and the place of work of users.
The database, which was first leaked in 2019, was initially being sold on instant messaging platform Telegram for a fee of $20 per search. Facebook had then said that it had patched the vulnerability that has caused the leak. But, in June 2020, and, then in January 2021, the same database was leaked again. The vulnerability was the same: it allowed users to search for a person’s number. Alon Gal, the co-founder and chief technical officer of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, was the first to flag this matter.
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