Got a Facebook account? Your data was likely leaked
The database of the latest alleged leak includes details of roughly 5.5 lakh users from Afghanistan, 1.2 million from Australia, 3.8 million from Bangladesh, 8 million from Brazil, and 6.1 million from India.
Alon Gal the co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock shared details of the leaked database on Twitter.
If someone had a Facebook account, their data had likely been leaked, he said.
Background
Database first leaked in 2019
The database was first leaked in 2019 and was sold on Telegram for $20 per search. Gal was the first to flag the leak.
At the time, Facebook said the vulnerability that caused the leak (allowing users to search for a person s number) had been patched.