Hacker Recycles Data on Half a Billion Facebook Users
Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn't been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale allegedly asked users for US$30,000 in exchange for the data," explained Ivan Righi, a cyber threa...