Facebook Hacked Data Breach Impacts Half-Billion Users Diane Lilli 4/4/21 In another shocking data breach, 533 million Facebook users are victims of hackers at Facebook. The news was announced last night, on April 3. The massive half-billion users' data leak of the victims showed up on a low-level hacking site. The stolen personal information for the 533 million Facebook users showed up online, free of charge, on Saturday. Facebook sent out an email statement about the global email scam, saying, "This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019." Facebook, considered the most prominent social media site globally, has over 2.6 billion active users.