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An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts.
More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials.
The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the time. The flaw allowed criminals to siphon hundreds of millions of member account details from Facebook and sell them to the highest bidder on illicit online markets.