A report claims that the personal data of over 533 million Facebook users have surfaced on a hacker forum, practically for free of cost.
The development was shared by the chief technology officer of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, Alon Gal and was first reported by Business Insider.
As per Gal, the exposed data includes the personal information of Facebook users from 106 countries. He claims that over six million Facebook user’s data in India has allegedly surfaced on the hacker forum for free.
Notably, a similar set of data had been leaked in January 2021 and was also spotted by Gal. However, the hackers were selling personal information such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and – in some cases – email addresses for a small sum of money at the time.
According to Gal, there is not much that Facebook could do at this point except for informing users that their data is out in the open so that users could remain vigilant in the future.