American media “Business Insider” (Business Insider) reported on April 3, the social network giant Facebook (Facebook) has as many as 533 million users personal information leaked, these data was disclosed in a hacker discussion forum earlier, involving 106 countries and regions, in addition to the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries, Hong Kong also has more than 2.93 million users affected. The outside world is worried that lawless elements will use the information to commit crimes.
The report disclosed that Facebook as early as January this year to know the vulnerability, but did not take any measures to curb and mitigate losses.
Alon Gal, technical director of Hudson-Rock, an intelligence firm that deals with cybercrime, said on Twitter that “users of a low-level cybercrime forum are selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users and letting customers use automated Telegram bots to easily look up those numbers.”
According to the known findings, in addition to Hong Kong, more than 32 million compromised accounts were confirmed to have originated in the United States, with 11 million in the United Kingdom and 6 million in India.
The information involved includes account ID, name, location, date of birth, email address, date of account creation, relationship status and personal profile, Garr said in the posting. He criticized Facebook for its utter negligence of user information, arguing that lawbreakers would certainly use the information for social engineering, fraud, hacking, marketing and other purposes. He also pointed out that although Facebook 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.
The Business Insider checked some of the user information that was made public and confirmed that the content matched the identity of some Facebook users. Another British media said that the technology news site Motherboard has been the first to disclose the existence of that database in January. A Facebook spokesman argued that the information was very old and that they had solved the problem in the previous year.
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