1.5 Billion Facebook Users' Personal Information Allegedly Posted for Sale (previous leak)

[Nevilledog]

https://www.newsweek.com/15-billion-facebook-users-personal-information-posted-sale-after-hack-1635439

Personal information from roughly 1.5 billion worldwide Facebook users was allegedly put up for sale following a recent leak.

A member of a known forum for hackers claimed to be in possession of the information in late September and offered to sell it in chunks to others on the forum, according to a report from Privacy Affairs. One user claimed to have gotten a quote of $5,000 for the information of 1 million users.

The user allegedly in possession of the leaked information claimed that it included the following for each Facebook account: name, email address, location, gender, phone number and user ID.

Samples shared by the user appear to have been authentic, according to Privacy Affairs. The outlet also checked the information against previous leaks and found that alleged info was a legitimately new leak, not old data being resold. The hacker claimed to be in charge of a four-year-old data scraping operation with 18,000 clients.

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[Nevilledog]

2. I don't FB

[msongs]

3. most all of that information is already available for most internet users. ever heard of a

phone book? or voter registration rolls?