Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019
3 years, 9 months ago

Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019

News 18  

A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook users – including phone numbers and other data – virtually for free. The database appears to be the same set of Facebook-linked telephone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard, according to Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. Reuters was not immediately able to vet the information, which is being offered for a few euros’ worth of digital credit on a well-known site for low-level hackers, but Gal said on Saturday that he had verified the authenticity of at least some of the data by comparing it against phone numbers of people he knew. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8 — Alon Gal April 3, 2021 Gal told Reuters that Facebook users should be alert to “social engineering attacks” by people who may have obtained their phone numbers or other private data in the coming months.

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Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal
7 months ago

Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal

India TV News  

Cybersecurity researchers have reported an alleged data leak which involve at least one lakh users of Facebook which appeared on a data breach forum. The team from CyberPeace, a New Delhi-based non-profit organisation alleged that 1,00,000 lines of fresh user data from Facebook have surfaced on a data breach forum. “Facebook faces potential reputational damage due to concerns about data …

Private data of 73 million AT&T customers leaked on dark web, including social security numbers
9 months, 1 week ago

Private data of 73 million AT&T customers leaked on dark web, including social security numbers

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The personal information of …

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users
3 years, 8 months ago

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users

The Hindu  

Facebook has suffered yet another data breach, only this time, private information from 533 million accounts have been leaked online. Even the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private credentials are part of the larger leaked data set from 2019. Private information of users was primarily obtained by exploiting Facebook’s contact importer feature that allows users to find friends on …

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak
3 years, 8 months ago

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak

The Hindu  

Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday it had launched an inquiry into Facebook Inc, after a dataset reported to contain personal data relating to some 533 million Facebook users worldwide was made public. Facebook said in a blog post last week that "malicious actors" had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by "scraping" profiles using a vulnerability in …

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online
3 years, 9 months ago

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online

India Today  

Only a couple of days ago, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. As per reports, over 500 million LinkedIn users' data were compromised in a huge data leak. As per CyberNews, Linkedin has been a part of a massive data breach that has exposed crucial data of 500 million …

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
55 years ago

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

Wired  

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. Or was it the 419 million Facebook user records, including hundreds of millions of phone numbers, names, and Facebook IDs, scraped from the social network by bad actors before a 2018 Facebook policy change, that were exposed publicly …

Facebook Data Leak: How to Check if Your Phone Number, Email Have Been Breached
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Data Leak: How to Check if Your Phone Number, Email Have Been Breached

News 18  

The Facebook data leak of 2021 has been one of the biggest of its kind, with data belonging to a staggering 533 million users being listed online across hacking forums. Now, noted cyber security researcher Troy Hunt, who has been hailed for his work with Have I Been Pwned, has updated the database of his website with entries of the …

Facebook data leak: Personal details of over 61 lakh Indians on sale by hackers
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data leak: Personal details of over 61 lakh Indians on sale by hackers

Op India  

A massive data dump of 533 million global Facebook users has been leaked and making rounds on hacker forums. As per the posts by threat actors who leaked the data, it contains user names, birthdays, phone numbers, users’ unique identifiers, emails, relationship statuses, occupation, account creation dates and more. Though he could not find data of anyone from his family, …

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far

India Today  

The latest Facebook data breach is claimed to have leaked the personal data of over 533 million users globally. In a country-wise breakup, the claimed data breach reportedly includes the personal information of 6 million users in India. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, posted information around the data breach that is said to have leaked data …

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing

News 18  

Facebook is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, and this time, a new report claims that the personal data of over 533 million users have surfaced on a hacker forum, practically for free of cost. Both the Business Insider team and Gal reportedly reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known …

Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online

The Hindu  

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following …

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online

News 18  

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. According to that publication, it has info from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following …

A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy
3 years, 10 months ago

A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy

Wired  

In an Apple commercial that was on heavy rotation last fall, people go around telling strangers intimate information about themselves. A beautiful woman informs a passerby, “My home is in 1,000 feet.” A man in a bathroom stall announces, “I’m currently reading an article titled ‘10 Ways to Keep Sweaty Hands From Holding You Back.’” Finally, you find out what …

Data of 533mn Facebook users being sold via Telegram bot
3 years, 11 months ago

Data of 533mn Facebook users being sold via Telegram bot

India TV News  

In a fresh trouble for Facebook, phone numbers of 533 million users are currently being sold via a bot on encrypted messaging platform Telegram, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched by the social network in 2019. According to a report in Motherboard, the person selling the database full of Facebook users' phone numbers lets customers lookup those …

Facebook acknowledges that it shared data of some inactive users with third-party apps, says the issue has now been fixed
4 years, 6 months ago

Facebook acknowledges that it shared data of some inactive users with third-party apps, says the issue has now been fixed

Firstpost  

Facebook says that from the past several months, approximately 5,000 developers continued to receive user data even after they were inactive for over 90 days. Facebook says that from the past several months, approximately 5,000 third-party app developers continued to receive the data that people had previously authorised, even after they were inactive on Facebook for over 90 days. Facebook …

Twitter bug allowed to match 17 million phone numbers with users
5 years ago

Twitter bug allowed to match 17 million phone numbers with users

The Hindu  

In yet another data breach on Twitter that has gone through a bad year on security, a researcher has claimed he matched 17 million phone numbers to user accounts, including high-profile politicians and officials, by exploiting a vulnerability in Twitter’s Android app. Security researcher Ibrahim Balic found that it was possible to upload entire lists of generated phone numbers through …

Facebook investigating data breach where names, phone numbers of over 267 million users was reportedly exposed
5 years ago

Facebook investigating data breach where names, phone numbers of over 267 million users was reportedly exposed

Firstpost  

The database was apparently made available for download last week on an online hacker forum that apparently belonged to a crime group. Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online. Comparitech said that security researcher Bob Diachenko spotted the database, which was …

India’s requests for Facebook user data increases by 37%, second only to U.S.
5 years, 1 month ago

India’s requests for Facebook user data increases by 37%, second only to U.S.

The Hindu  

The Indian government’s requests for user data from Facebook increased nearly 37% in the first half of 2019, and at 22,684 queries, was the second highest globally, according to the Transparency Report of the U.S.-based social networking site. The US government submitted the maximum number of 50,714 requests for details of 82,461 Facebook users/accounts during the first half of the …

Documents show how Facebook harnessed user data
5 years, 2 months ago

Documents show how Facebook harnessed user data

The Hindu  

Leaked documents from a civil suit against Facebook show how the social network aimed to employ user data as a tool for bargaining and to manipulate competitors, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Some 7,000 pages of documents reveal how Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his team harnessed users’ personal information to reward partners by giving them preferential data, while depriving …

Facebook used user data as a weapon against rivals, offered it up as a sop to friends: Report
5 years, 2 months ago

Facebook used user data as a weapon against rivals, offered it up as a sop to friends: Report

Firstpost  

A trove of 7,000 pages of leaked documents shows exactly how Facebook leveraged user data against rivals. The documents were originally obtained by NBC from British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, which shows how Facebook would reward favoured companies by giving them greater access to user data. The documents also highlighted that when a messaging app became popular and threatened Facebook’s …

Indian-origin researcher finds 419mn Facebook users' exposed data
5 years, 4 months ago

Indian-origin researcher finds 419mn Facebook users' exposed data

The Quint  

San Francisco, Sep 5 Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member at Hague-based non-profit organisation GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server which were available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more …

400 million Facebook users' phone numbers LEAKED in privacy lapse
5 years, 4 months ago

400 million Facebook users' phone numbers LEAKED in privacy lapse

India TV News  

Phone numbers of as many as 400 million Facebook users have been leaked, news agency AFP quoted the US media as saying. According to technology news site TechCruch, an exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases - including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain. Facebook user IDs …

Facebook warned staff, not users about the known risks before 2018 breach
5 years, 4 months ago

Facebook warned staff, not users about the known risks before 2018 breach

India Today  

The year 2018 brought a series of bad news for Facebook. Now, almost a year later new details about a bug that affected the accounts of nearly 50 million Facebook users have surfaced online. Facebook users are suing the world's largest social media company on the grounds that it failed to warn its users about the known risks pertaining to …

Facebook Removed Nearly 3.4 Billion Fake Accounts In 6 Months
5 years, 7 months ago

Facebook Removed Nearly 3.4 Billion Fake Accounts In 6 Months

NPR  

Facebook Removed Nearly 3.4 Billion Fake Accounts In 6 Months Enlarge this image toggle caption Francois Mori/AP Francois Mori/AP Facebook says it removed 3.39 billion fake accounts from October to March. In the company's latest Community Standards Enforcement Report, released Thursday, Facebook said nearly all of the fake accounts were caught by artificial intelligence and more human monitoring. Sponsor Message …

Facebook caught sharing private user data with telecom companies, phone makers: Report
5 years, 7 months ago

Facebook caught sharing private user data with telecom companies, phone makers: Report

Firstpost  

Facebook’s apps harvest and package eight different categories of information for use by 100 companies. The social media giant has been found to be offering private data of users to 100 different telecom companies and phone makers in 50 countries without their knowledge or consent. All this is allegedly being done through a corporate data-sharing programme announced by Facebook last …

Facebook leak of millions of user passwords investigated by Irish privacy regulator
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook leak of millions of user passwords investigated by Irish privacy regulator

Firstpost  

With ten investigation open in Europe, Irish commission opens yet another one against Facebook. Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed. The company said last month that it had inadvertently stored passwords for users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram in plain …

Facebook being investigated for unauthorised storage of up to 1.5 million email IDs
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook being investigated for unauthorised storage of up to 1.5 million email IDs

Firstpost  

Facebook said it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contacts of up to 1.5 million new users New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday she is investigating Facebook Inc’s unauthorised storage of up to 1.5 million Facebook users’ email contact databases, the latest privacy issue to affect the U.S. social media giant. Last week, Facebook said it may have …

Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

The Quint  

San Francisco, April 19 A day after admitting it "unintentionally" uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored on its servers in a readable format. Last month, Facebook said that it fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users' passwords were stored in plain text and "readable" …

Facebook says it ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of 1.5 mn users on its site
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook says it ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of 1.5 mn users on its site

Firstpost  

The underlying glitch has been fixed, according to a statement issued by Facebook. Facebook has stated that it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media company. There were cases in which email contacts of people were uploaded to Facebook …

Facebook unintentionally uploaded email contacts of 1.5 million users without consent
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook unintentionally uploaded email contacts of 1.5 million users without consent

India Today  

Facebook is in a mess -again! And now, less than a month later Facebook has admitted that it unintentionally collected the email contacts of nearly 1.5 million users without their consent. According to a report by the Business Insider, the social media giant has collected the email contacts of 1.5 million users since 2016 and uploaded them on to its …

Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook fixes glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees

Live Mint  

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees. The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported in the issue, said in its report. …

Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people’s passwords
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people’s passwords

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Facebook is back with another mea culpa. This time, the company acknowledges that it mishandled sensitive passwords for hundreds of millions of its users, primarily those who use its Facebook Lite product. On Thursday, Facebook said it didn’t properly mask the passwords of hundreds of millions of its users and stored them as plain text …

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