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Data from more than 1.5 billion Facebook users are now sold on a popular hacker forum. There are names, emails, phone numbers, locations, genders and id.

This could be the largest and most significant data drain to the FB in history.

I need to fact check this properly because this is extremely significant
It's not. The people sensationalizing this are trying to get clicks. Somebody made a post on the 22nd of September offering the database. Another user supposedly paid for the info but have yet to hear back from the seller. It was all publicly available info too.

Data of Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum

Data Obtained by Scraping
The traders claim to have obtained the data by scraping rather than hacking or compromising individual users’ accounts. Scraping is a process of web data extraction or harvesting where publicly available data is accessed and organized into lists and databases.

While technically, no accounts have been compromised, this is little solace to those whose data may now end up in the hands of unscrupulous internet marketers and likely also in the hands of cybercriminals.

Unethical marketers may utilize this data to bombard specific individuals or groups of individuals with unsolicited advertising.

The fact that phone numbers, real-life location, and users’ full names are included in the data is especially concerning. In addition, SMS and Push notification spam are becoming increasingly more prevalent even though most countries made these practices illegal many years ago.


Update: After this news was initially published, a user of the forum claimed that they paid the seller but didn’t receive anything in return. The seller hasn’t yet responded to these accusations.

All we know at this moment is that the multiple samples provided to forum users appeared to be real.
 

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Pawg in the gym not even looking at her phone :ohhh:

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