WASHINGTON — A leaker says they are offering information on
more than 500 million Facebook Inc users - including phone numbers and other
data - virtually for free.
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The database appears to be the same set of Facebook-linked
telephone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and
whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard, according
to Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock.
Reuters was not immediately able to vet the information,
which is being offered for a few euros' worth of digital credit on a well-known
site for low-level hackers, but Gal said on Saturday that he had verified the
authenticity of at least some of the data by comparing it against phone numbers
of people he knew. Other journalists say they have also been able to match
known phone numbers to the details in the data dump.
In a statement, Facebook said that the data was "very
old" and related to an issue that it had fixed in August 2019.
An attempt by Reuters to reach the leaker over the messaging
service Telegram was not immediately successful.
Gal told Reuters that Facebook users should be alert to
"social engineering attacks" by people who may have obtained their
phone numbers or other private data in the coming months.
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