U.S. media “Business Insider” (Business Insider) reported on Saturday (3), the social network giant Facebook (Fb) has as many as 533 million users personal data, earlier in a hacker discussion forum was public, involving 106 countries and regions, including Hong Kong also has more than 2.93 million users affected. The outside world is worried that the wrongdoers will use the information to commit crimes, Fb response refers to the relevant information is very old, they have been in the previous year to solve the problem.
The report said that the technical director of the Israeli cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock Gal (Alon Gal) said on Saturday in Twitter, Fb has a large amount of information leaked, exposed in a low-level online hacking discussion forum, said that if everyone has an Fb account, the account registered phone number has a high chance of outflow. Affected users from hundreds of countries and regions, in addition to Hong Kong, the United States accounted for more than 32 million, the United Kingdom and India also have 11 million and 6 million respectively.
Garr said in a posting that the information involved included account ID, name, location, date of birth, email address, date of account creation, relationship status and personal profile. He criticized Fb for its utter negligence of user information, arguing that unscrupulous elements would certainly use the information for social engineering, fraud, hacking, marketing and other purposes. He also pointed out that although Fb has not much remedial measures, but still should inform users of the situation, so that they are alert to the possible use of their personal data to create phishing or fraudulent behavior.
Business Insider checked some of the user information that was made public and confirmed that the content matched the identity of some of Fb’s users. The Fb spokesman responded that the information was old and reported in 2019, and they solved the problem in August of the same year.
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