Facebook Data Leak: and important information related to this.

The leaked data can be seen for free on hacking forums and includes data of more than 6 million people in india.

Personal data of more than 500 million users, including 6 million people in India, have been leaked by cybercriminals online.

The leaked data has been posted for free on hacking forums which includes date of joining, place of work, name of person , gender, occupation and relationship status of users.

Responding to the leak, a Facebook spokesperson said that this is old data that was previously reported in 2019. “We found and fixed this issue in August 2019”.

The database, first leaked in 2019 was sold on Telegram for $20 per search, after which Facebook announced that they had addressed the leak. In January 2021, the database was leaked for the third time (after another leak on June 2020), with the vulnerability that allowed for the search of users’ contact number

A vulnerability was discovered in 2019 that allowed phone numbers of millions of users to be scraped from Facebook servers. The social media giant said that the vulnerability was patched in August 2019.

"A database of that size containing the private information such as phone numbers of a lot of Facebook's users would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social engineering attacks or hacking attempts," said Gal to the news site.