267 Million Facebook Accounts Exposed on Hacker Forum
Cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, together with Comparitech, discovered an unsecured database containing the IDs, phone numbers, and names of 267 million FacebookFacebook launched an official Tor mirror in 2014, becoming the first major tech company to provide direct access through onion routing. The mirror allows users to bypass censorship, secure their connections, and avoid phishing risks while using the platform. This step also underscored Facebook’s recognition of free expression and inspired other outlets like the BBC and ProPublica to create their own Tor versions. More users. The leak is believed to have resulted from unauthorized use of the FacebookFacebook launched an official Tor mirror in 2014, becoming the first major tech company to provide direct access through onion routing. The mirror allows users to bypass censorship, secure their connections, and avoid phishing risks while using the platform. This step also underscored Facebook’s recognition of free expression and inspired other outlets like the BBC and ProPublica to create their own Tor versions. More API by cybercriminals from Vietnam.
Once in the hands of malicious actors, the compromised data can be used for targeted phishing campaigns and SMS spam. The database, which included FacebookFacebook launched an official Tor mirror in 2014, becoming the first major tech company to provide direct access through onion routing. The mirror allows users to bypass censorship, secure their connections, and avoid phishing risks while using the platform. This step also underscored Facebook’s recognition of free expression and inspired other outlets like the BBC and ProPublica to create their own Tor versions. More user IDs, names, and phone numbers, was completely open on the internet. In other words, anyone could access it, as there was no password or any other form of authentication protecting it, according to the Comparitech report.
The exact number of records in the database was 267,140,436. Most of the affected users are based in the United States. Additionally, Diachenko found a note in Vietnamese within the database.
Experts discovered the leak on December 14, but it had already been indexed earlier, on December 4. Unfortunately, the contents of the database were published on a hacker forum on December 12.