The data went up for sale shortly after a hacker forum claimed that 1.5 billion Facebook users’ data had been compromised. The sample data presented by the hacker, who sold 1 million of them for 5 thousand dollars, indicates that the data of each account is real.
As you know, Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp. Inaccessible since the evening of October 4th. While the authorities are trying to solve the problem, many allegations about the root of the problem are made. Now we will talk about a rather serious situation that has arisen. However, we do not know for now how much this is related to the crashes of the sites.
According to newly revealed information, on a hacker forum site That the data of 1.5 billion Facebook users was compromised A post has been shared. This post was made at the end of September. Now, according to what is written on the site This data is for sale.
Personal data of 1.5 billion Facebook users is up for sale:
on September 22 According to the post on the shared forum, Facebook, which already has 2.89 billion users, has been exposed to a major leak. The hacker claimed to hold data of many types from 1.5 billion Facebook accounts. Such a massive data theft is easily recorded as the biggest Facebook data leak in history. The personal data allegedly seized is as follows:
- Name surname
- E-mail address
- Location
- gender
- Phone number
- User name
Potential buyers of hacker-sold data are fraudulent advertisers and cybercriminals. These people have the option to either collect the user data of 1.5 billion people or to receive a certain amount of user data. hacker, It sells data of 1 million users for $5,000. The sample data presented, on the other hand, indicates that the data is not a duplicate and is real.
The 1.5 billion leaks are unrelated to the 500 million leaks last year:
Last year, there was a Facebook leak with data from Turkey, again for the purpose of selling. A hacker stole the data of 500 million Facebook users and sold all the data for 30 thousand dollars. Again, this leak, which obtained e-mail, age, address and many similar information, apparently does not coincide with the leak we are talking about now. In other words, the data in the new hacker advertisement is not already stolen information.
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