Personal data of 1.5 billion Facebook users for sale?

The above information was released by the cybersecurity news site Privacy Affairs on October 4.

According to Privacy Affairs , the “seemingly authentic” data is collected through users’ use of questionable features on social networks (such as guessing age, guessing the future, etc.).

This personal data is for sale for $5,000 per million accounts. One user claimed to have paid the data merchant, but had not received anything and the merchant has yet to respond.

This is considered the “biggest and most serious Facebook data leak to date”. The scale of this incident is about three times larger than the leak of 533 million phone numbers in April. At the time, Facebook said the phone numbers mentioned above were “stale data”, and the security flaw The secret was “patched” back in 2019.

On October 4, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp applications experienced serious problems. Facebook’s application cannot be used on mobile phones, while users of this social network on computers are reporting errors. Instagram users also received the same message, and the problem lasted up to six hours.

The above information was released by the cybersecurity news site Privacy Affairs on October 4.

According to Privacy Affairs, “apparently authentic” data is collected through users’ use of questionable features on social networks (such as guessing age, predicting the future, etc.).

This personal data is for sale for $5,000 per million accounts. One user claimed to have paid the data merchant, but had not received anything and the merchant has yet to respond.

This is considered the “biggest and most serious Facebook data leak to date”. The scale of this incident is about three times larger than the leak of 533 million phone numbers in April. At the time, Facebook said the phone numbers mentioned above were “stale data”, and the security flaw The secret was “patched” back in 2019.

On October 4, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp applications experienced serious problems. Facebook’s application cannot be used on mobile phones, while users of this social network on computers are reporting errors. Instagram users also received the same message, and the problem lasted up to six hours.