Information of more than 500 million Facebook accounts on hackers’ site, claims in this report
A website of hackers has information of more than 500 million Facebook users. Although this information and data seem to be several years old. However the situation may be, but this news and huge figures like 50 crores have raised the concern of netizens who are active on the Internet and social media once again. Actually, this data raises questions about the security of detailed information obtained by Facebook and other social media sites.
The latest report
The information about the availability of data was given by a reputed news website. According to this website, phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth and email addresses of people from 106 countries are available online. Questions have been arising on the security of people’s information for many years on Facebook.
On the other hand, Alon Gal, chief technical officer of Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence firm, said on Saturday, “533,000,000 Facebook records were leaked for free.”
In 2018, the social media company stopped the facility to search user accounts through phone number after the revelation that political company ‘Cambridge Analytica’ had obtained the information of eight and seven million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.
Facebook cleaning
Significantly, a safety researcher from Ukraine said in December 2019 that the information of 26.7 million Facebook users is available on the Internet. It is not yet clear whether the data that news website has made available is related to the data received in December 2019. Facebook said in a statement, ‘This is old data, which was given information in 2019. We had overcome this problem in August 2019 itself.’
