Hackers Selling 267 million Facebook Records Are you Safe?

                   Hackers Selling 267 million
                          Facebook Records

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267 million Facebook records are being sold for around $600 on the hacker forum.

Facebook has more than 2.5 billion monthly active users and when its data is breached , that’s bad news for everyone. Today is one of those days where personal data of millions of unsuspected users has been put at risk.

In December 2019, Hackread.com reported that a misconfigured Elasticsearch server exposed the personal information of 267 million (267,140,436) users. These records mostly belonged to users in the United States and included Facebook profiles, full names, a unique ID for each account and timestamp, etc.

 70% of US citizens are Active on Facebook which means that out of the country’s total population of 327.2 million, roughly 232.6 million people are on Facebook.

Now, it seems like the same database is being sold on a hacker forum, Hackread.com has learned.

The sold data includes their Facebook profile links, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, age, date of birth, status as in whether the user is active on the site or not, gender, city, and addresses, etc

The database is being sold for £500 (€575 – $625). What’s worse is that researchers bought and analyzed the data which turned out to be legitimate. The good news is that these records do not contain user passwords but the type of data being sold data is enough to carry out phishing and malware scam against victims.

The researchers bought and verified the information. The number 267 million will ring bells when it comes to Facebook data breaches. Late last year, that same number of mostly U.S. records was found online for sale. “We are looking into this,” Facebook said at the time, “but believe it is likely information obtained before changes we made in the past few years to better protect people’s information.”

Facebook is desperate to repair the reputational damage that started with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and lurched through various data protection, privacy and ad tracker scandals. This data is likely from a past breach and does not suggest current weaknesses with Facebook’s systems.

Meanwhile, users can check whether their email addresses have been found in dark web data breaches on Cyble’s site here.

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