267 million - mostly American - Facebook users IDs, names and phone numbers have been exposed online in unsecured database
Posted on AllSides December 19th, 2019
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The records of hundreds of millions Facebook users was discovered in a online forum on the dark web.
The unsecure database contained the IDs, phone numbers and full names of 267 million users, most of which reside in the US.
Although it is not yet clear how the sensitive information was exposed, experts speculate the database was compiled through an illegal process called ‘scraping’ – automated bots copied public information from Facebook profiles.
The leak was discovered by the cybersecurity firm Comparitech in partnership with security researcher Bob Diachenko....
