Reams of personal data – including phone numbers, email addresses, and birthdays – obtained from 533 million Facebook accounts was offered to all for free on a cyber-crime forum over the weekend.
The data dump was flagged up by Alon Gal, co-founder and CTO of infosec startup Hudson Rock. The information – which also includes people’s names, marital status, occupation, and location – was siphoned from Facebook in 2019 via a vulnerability in the platform. The data was packaged up and sold online to miscreants in June 2020.
Now that same database is up for grabs to anyone who messages a particular Telegram account and asks nicely. The records were pilfered from hundreds of millions of Facebook profiles spread across 104 countries; that includes 32,315,282 accounts in the US, and 11,522,328 in the UK, according to a post on the underground forum viewed by The Register. All of the data amounts to over 70GB. It's
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