Report: FaceBook User Data "Scraped"; 1.5 Billion Users' Personal Information Now Being Sold on Hacker Sites

For those of you wondering why FaceBook has been down (as well as FaceBook-owned Instagram), this might be the answer.

Update: the article clarifies that this does not have anything to do with FaceBook being down. Though... I wonder if they mean this hack did not directly cause the outage -- while leaving open the possibility that FaceBook's efforts to improve security and trace the hack are causing the outages.

The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.

This constitutes the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date.

It is seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump, where 500 million users were affected.

Highlights:

Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.

Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.

Data appears to be authentic.

Personal data obtained through web scraping.

Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.

Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.

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