Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum.

10/4/2021- 4:43 p.m.

Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum.

The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.

This constitutes the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date.

Highlights:
-Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.
-Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.
-Data appears to be authentic.
Personal data obtained through web scraping.
-Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.
-Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.