How to know if you are in the leaked data of Facebook!
How to know if you are in the leaked data of Facebook!
Many of you already know that big data has been leaked from Facebook again. This time the leak is said to be quite large. About half a billion user data is now open online. This huge leak contains important information about 533 million users in 108 countries. In terms of population, which is less than China and India but more than America. Facebook currently has 2.8 billion users, so your account is about 20% more likely to be in leaked data. With 533 million users, the number of users in Bangladesh is not insignificant. Bangladesh has 3.6 million users. Whose data is in this leak. The good news is that the leaked data contains important information such as users' phone numbers, ID names, birthdates, bios, locations, etc., but does not contain the most important piece of information, namely the Facebook password.
The uproar began earlier this month when the world's major news outlets began to publicize the incident. But the data leak is not that recent. It is thought that this may have happened earlier in 2019. According to a January report from Motherboard, Through the Telegram bot, hackers have been able to find out the phone numbers of Facebook users for a small charge. But it started to hit the news media when a cyber expert named Alon Gal tweeted more details about it on Twitter. For a long time, it was necessary to charge for viewing the data, but now so much data is available for free in various cyber crime related communities. It is not at all pleasant to have such large scale data available online. This data can be easily used by unscrupulous hackers for various cyber crimes. Although the incident has been going on for several days, Facebook has not yet officially opened its mouth. But it is known to be some of the spokespersons of Facebook, These data are from 2019 and that's when Facebook fixed a big vulnerability. But Facebook did not send any kind of notification to the accounts that were compromised at that time. Interestingly, the data of 533 million users includes the account of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. Earlier in 2016, Facebook was involved in a scandal called Cambridge Analytica where Facebook was accused of providing information to targeted ads in the 2016 US elections. Although Facebook did not sell direct data then, it has to face many legal hurdles, so they said that in the future they will be more strict about data scraping, but we also have to see this happening. To provide information on targeted ads in elections. Although Facebook did not sell direct data then, it has to face many legal hurdles, so they said that in the future they will be more strict about data scraping, but we also have to see this happening. To provide information on targeted ads in elections. Although Facebook did not sell direct data then, it has to face a lot of legal hurdles, so they said that in the future they will be more strict about data scraping, but we also have to see this happening.
How do you know if you have an account?
If you have numbers in this list, you can turn on Two Factor Authentication for extra caution. In addition, everyone is advised to use different strong passwords on all websites.
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