Information from 267 million Facebook users was leaked online and can now be downloaded from one hacking forum.
The database includes user IDs, phone numbers and their names, such as he says Comparitech and security researcher Bob Diachenko. This information was uploaded to a public server that was accessible to anyone without a password or other authentication method.
The data was first recorded on December 4, while on December 12 all the information was uploaded to a hacking forum. Two days later, the security researcher reported the incident to the ISP it belongs to address Server IP and on December 19th the database went offline.
However, because many have downloaded many copies of the database, they continue to circulate as they have been uploaded to other servers. So the risk for the future spam and Phishing is high, according to researchers.
To date, we do not know how the information is leaked. Diachenko believes that the data was stolen from a Facebook API before the social network added verification with a phone number in 2018.
The security researcher believes the hack was done by a hacker who lives in Vietnam but has yet to provide evidence.
