The leak came after a misconfigured Elasticsearch server exposed Facebook users’ data involved in a previous breach.
For the last few years, Facebook has been embroiled in a range of controversies ranging from the social network’s hegemony over the internet to scandals like that of Cambridge Analytica in 2018. Not to forget just a few weeks ago a hacker was found selling personal data of 267 million Facebook users.
To tackle these, the company claims to take certain measures but despite that, slips here and there have continued to occur.
The latest in this episode was reported by Safety Detectives whose research team headed by Anurag Sen discovered that the data of 12 million Facebook users based in Vietnam has been leaked.
See: Stolen: Unencrypted hard drives with data of 29,000 Facebook employees
According to the researchers, the data was found on an Elasticsearch server and includes records found in a previous breach of Vietnamese users in January 2020.
However, not all of it is from Facebook and multiple sources are believed to be at play. Further, the details of how the perpetrators managed to scrape such a large amount are not known yet.
Amounting to over 3GB, most of the data includes personally identifiable information (PII) with the following records:
Full name
Hometown location
Current location
Education details
Birthdates
GPS coordinates
Email addresses
Facebook usernames and IDs
Profile scores
Facebook usernames and IDs
Family relations with other Facebook users
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