Data of over 500 million Facebook customers, together with telephone numbers, leaked: Report

WASHINGTON: A leaker says they’re providing info on greater than 500 million Facebook Inc customers – together with telephone numbers and different knowledge – just about free of charge.

Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence agency Hudson Rock, stated on Saturday the database seems to be the identical set of Facebook-linked phone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard.

Reuters was not instantly capable of vet the data, which is being provided for a number of euros’ value of digital credit score on a well known website for low-level hackers, however Gal stated he had verified the authenticity of not less than a number of the knowledge by evaluating it towards telephone numbers of individuals he knew.

Other journalists say they’ve additionally been capable of match recognized telephone numbers to the main points within the knowledge dump.

An try by Reuters to succeed in the leaker over the messaging service Telegram was not instantly profitable. Facebook didn’t return messages searching for remark.

Motherboard’s story earlier this yr cited Facebook as saying the leaked knowledge gave the impression to be the fruit of a bug that the corporate mounted in August 2019.

Gal advised Reuters that Facebook customers must be alert to “social engineering attacks” by individuals who could have obtained their telephone numbers or different personal knowledge within the coming months.

News of the most recent leak was first reported by Business Insider.

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