Hacker group Anonymous, which has become one of the focal points in every cyber crisis and has been associated with many activist cyber attacks in the past, made a new statement about the Facebook crisis that lasted for 7 hours.
On the night of October 4, when we survived the biggest cyber crisis in history, Twitter, which was our eyes and ears, also turned into an environment where many unfounded information circulated. One of this information is said to belong to 1.5 billion users of Facebook. It was alleged that the information was for sale.
While some said that Facebook was hacked, others claimed that there were some technical errors at the root of the problem. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s director of infrastructure, said in a statement on the company’s website, from a wrong configuration reported that the origin was detected.
The famous hacker group denied the news that “1.5 billion users’ information was on sale” circulating during the blackout. That statement made by Anonymous on Twitter:
“During the Facebook outage, Facebook was hacked and 1.5 billion users’ data was leaked You may have read the headlines. This information is wrong, people tried to eat the bread of the cut by creating sensational headlines for the sake of getting clicks.
Here’s what actually happened: Someone used a web scraper to download the general information of 1.5 billion users. These are only those you choose to share with Facebook. public information and everyone can already see that information.”
Similar claims have been made about Facebook, which already has 2.89 billion users. The company stated that there was no evidence that user information was stolen during this process, denied such reports.
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