Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users leaked on dark web
Days after Facebook and its sibling firms had a 6-hour global outage, claims appeared stating that 1.5 billion Facebook users' data was uncovered for sale on a hacker forum. According to a TechRepublic report, privacy research firm 'Privacy Affairs' has discovered the personal data of over 1.5 billion individuals on a hacker forum, including names, email addresses, localities, genders, phone numbers, and Facebook User ID information. According to Privacy Affairs, the data was collected by the corporation through'scraping.' This indicates that the seller did not acquire access to Facebook's internal systems, but instead obtained the information by'scraping' publically available material and organising it into databases and lists. However, the security of Facebook users is still at risk as a result of the incident. Hackers might exploit it to reset user passwords and gain access to even more personal information. Also Read: Skoda India names upcoming new s