The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users’ Facebook accounts passwords.
For the last couple of years, a Facebook database containing the personal and contact information of more than 500 million users kept popping up on several hacker forums where threat actors offered the data for $30,000.
Hackread.com exclusively reported on the incident back in May 2020 in which the database contained user info from 82 countries. Now, another database with records of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries has been leaked online.
Screenshot of the leaked data (Image source: Hackread.com)
What is in the leaked data?
It can be confirmed that the database is available on several Telegram channels along with hacker forums. The good news is that no passwords were leaked however, an in-depth analysis of the records will be published later. As of now, the database contains the following information:
Full names
Genders
City
Country
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Marital status
Service provider
Facebook profile UIDs
Facebook profile links
Educational institution
Details from About section
Occupation (Job description)
Was Facebook hacked or that’s data scrapping?
No, Facebook was not hacked neither were its servers breached to steal your data. This database is the result of web data scrapping which depending on its use is an illegal technique in which a computer program (bots) extracts data from a website.
Remember, third-party firms can use data scrapping, a fairly common practice to extract the personal information of users from websites like Facebook or Twitter. Facebook in particular facebook users countries leaked online
