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Another day, another data breach Here s how to see if you ve been exposed

PC World New Zealand Another day, another data breach. Here’s how to see if you’ve been exposed Use a password manager, two-factor authentication, and stay on guard against phishing attacks if your info was publicly revealed. Credit: Pixabay In early April, security experts made public the details of yet another Facebook data breach, this one affecting over half a billion users. As originally reported by Business Insider, personal information on 533 million Facebook users spanning 106 countries surfaced in a hacking forum, with records including email addresses, phone numbers, full names, locations, birthdays, and relationship statuses. This data traces back to a vulnerability fixed by Facebook in 2019, which allowed the scraping of profiles.

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Share on email Last April 3, cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock CTO Alon Gal reported that the personal user data of over 533 million Facebook users was released for free openly over the Internet via a hacking forum which deals in buying and selling of platform data leaks. According to Facebook, the data was obtained in 2019 via profile scraping through a vulnerability in a tool used by the platform to synchronize contacts, possibly related to the Instagram exploit an Israeli hacker going by the handle @ZHacker13 documented in 2019. Spanning subjects from over a hundred countries, included in the leak are phone numbers, Facebook numeric IDs, full name, gender, civil status, geographic locations, hometowns, occupations, and in some cases, e-mail addresses, and dates of birth.

Facebook Doesn t Intend To Tell You If Your Data Was Leaked

To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Facebook didn’t notify any of the more than 530 million users whose details were part of the recent data leak and does not have any current plans to do so, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday. Following a Business Insider report last week, Facebook confirmed that “malicious actors” scraped more than 530 million users’ data prior to September 2019 by exploiting Facebook’s contact synching tool.

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