Private messages from its 81.000 members Facebook are available for sale at 10 cents each account through FBSaler. The hacked accounts appear to be from the underground forum BlackHatWorld.
In addition to private messages from 81.000 profiles, FBSaler also published information from other 176.000 accounts, with email addresses and phone numbers.
The FBSaler Reported also to the BBC that they have total data from 120 millions of Facebook accounts, but without giving any proof.
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However, as the BBC also stated, "the BBC's Russian service contacted five Russians users of Facebook, whose private messages were allegedly stolen and confirmed as theirs."
From the 120 million profiles FBSaler is reported to have, the 2,7 million accounts are owned by Russians.
Facebook, for its part, told the BBC that its systems had not been hacked, and that it believed the data came from extensions browser.
"We have contacted browser manufacturers to ensure that known malicious extensions are no longer available for λήψη in their stores," Facebook's Guy Rosen told the BBC.
We have also contacted the Authorities and are working with Russian services to close the site displaying information from Facebook accounts.
Facebook seems to be going through one endless crisis, starting from its scandal Cambridge Analytica and immediately after with a subject security which affected 50 million users in September.
Let's see if all this will have an impact on the profits of the next quarter.
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