Over 500 Million Facebook Users' Personal Data Dumped on Hacker Forum
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Facebook admits that data on 533 million of its users published in a hacker forum on Saturday morning came from a breach it experienced in 2019.
The exposed data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and in some cases, email addresses for its users spanning 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India.
The data was first discovered by Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. (Aaron Holmes / Insider)
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