Cybersecurity

According to a Tweet and Articles, 533,000,000 Facebook Records Were Leaked for Free.

Security and privacy matter.

I am posting this short story to raise awareness of a recent incident affecting us globally. This situation is not only a risk for the economy, but it also increases anxiety leading to mental health disorders for innocent people.

I have just come across this Twitter thread from Alon Gal earlier today, pointing out that many accounts with phone numbers, location, birth date, email address, relationship status, and bio most likely were leaked.

These are critical pieces of information for individuals.

I don’t know the source of this information but considering 7,000 people retweeted this post, the situation may be serious and severe.

We need to be careful with the information we provide on online platforms.

Data security is essential to prevent scary identity theft.

I will provide an update if I read more about this issue.

Post Update 1:

I have come across this article quoting the same tweet and elaborating on the incident with a background by Andrew Thurman.

Post Update 2:

I read an article from Business Insider in Australia today.

Here are the three highlights from the Business Insider post:

• “The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
• The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
• Security researchers warn that the data could be used by hackers to impersonate people and commit fraud.”

Post Update 3:

“Mark Zuckerberg’s phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users, according to a researcher” according to an article on Business Insider today.

Post update 4:

“One thing that steals my focus of this “Facebook Leak” is that no one contacted you about the hack or telling you what to do, unlike other companies. Therefore, instead of apologizing for failing to keep our data safe, Facebook’s product management director Mike Clark began his blog post by: “It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,”

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