Data affecting more than 500 million Facebook users, which was first leaked in 2019, including email addresses and phone numbers, was posted on an online hacker forum. Business Insider's reported, the leak contains personal information about 533 million Facebook users, such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, places, dates of birth, biographies, and in some cases, email addresses.
“This is old data previously reported in 2019,” a Facebook spokesperson said in an email statement. “We found and fixed this issue in August 2019.” At the time, the company addressed a flaw in its technology that allowed information to leak out. However, once such data escapes Facebook's network, the company's power to stop its spread on the internet is limited.
Alon Gal, chief technology officer at the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, rediscovered the data Saturday. Databases, especially if large or rare, aren't nearly as widely shared because "the people who hold them will try to monetize it for as long as they can," Gal said in a post on Twitter. “The process sometimes takes years, sometimes days, but eventually leaks if all private databases are sold. “The data leaks threaten to undermine Facebook's business model of collecting massive amounts of personal information and using it to sell targeted ads.
The data is currently available in 106 separate download packages and is broken down by country. While the forum is public and anyone can register a profile, download links for these packages are only available to users who have purchased forum credits.
In total, 533,313,128 personal data were leaked from Facebook, 19,638,821 of them from Turkey. Below is the number of data leaks per country; One
- Afganistan 558.393
- Afrika 14.323.766
- Angola 50.889
- Arnavutluk 506.602
- Cezayir 11.505.898
- Arjantin 2.347.553
- Avusturya 1.249.388
- Avustralya 7.320.478
- Azerbaycan 99.472
- Bahreyn 1.450.124
- Bangladeş 3.816.339
- Belçika 3.183.584
- Bolivya 2.959.209
- Botsvana 240.606
- Brezilya 8.064.916
- Brunei 213.795
- Bulgaristan 432.473
- Burkina Faso 6.413
- Burundi 15.709
- Kamboçya 2.838
- Kamerun 1.997.658
- Kanada 3.494.385
- Şili 6.889.083
- Çin 670.334
- Kolombiya 17.957.908
- Kosta Rika 1.464.002
- Hırvatistan 659.115
- Kıbrıs 152.321
- Çek Cumhuriyeti 1.375.988
- Danimarka 639.841
- Cibuti 14.327
- Ekvador 310.259
- Mısır 44.823.547
- El Salvador 4.779
- Estonya 87.533
- Etiyopya 12.753
- Fiji 5.364
- Finlandiya 1.381.569
- Fransa 19.848.559
- Gürcistan 95.193
- Almanya 6.054.423
- Gana 1.027.969
- Yunanistan 617.722
- Guatemala 1.645.068
- Haiti 15.407
- Honduras 16.142
- Hong Kong 2.937.841
- Macaristan 377.045
- İzlanda 31.343
- Hindistan 6.162.450
- Endonezya 130.331
- İran 301.723
- Irak 17.116.398
- İrlanda 1.449.919
- İsrail 3.956.428
- İtalya 35.677.323
- Jamaika 385.890
- Japonya 428.625
- Ürdün 3.105.988
- Kazakistan 3.214.990
- Kuveyt 4.468.134
- Lübnan 1.829.661
- Libya 4.204.514
- Litvanya 220.160
- Lüksemburg 188.201
- Makao 414.228
- Malezya 11.675.894
- Maldivler 86.337
- Malta 115.366
- Mauritius 848.558
- Meksika 13.330.561
- Moldova 46.237
- Fas 18.939.198
- Namibya 409.356
- Hollanda 5.430.388
- Nijerya 9.000.131
- Norveç 475.809
- Umman 5.048.532
- Filistin 3.367.576
- Panama 1.502.310
- Peru 8.075.317
- Filipinler 879.699
- Polonya 2.669.381
- Portekiz 2.277.361
- Porto Riko 130.586
- Katar 2.526.694
- Rusya 9.996.405
- Suudi Arabistan 28.804.686
- Sırbistan 162.898
- Singapur 3.073.009
- Slovenya 229.039
- Güney Kore 121.744
- İspanya 10.894.206
- Sudan 9.464.772
- İsveç 1.092.140
- İsviçre 1.592.039
- Suriye 6.939.528
- Tayvan 734.807
- Tunus 39.526.412
- Türkiye 19.638.821
- Türkmenistan 16.279
- Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri 6.978.927
- Birleşik Krallık 11.522.328
- Uruguay 1.509.317
- ABD 32.315.282
- Yemen 4.617.359
Toplam 533.313.128
Source:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/04/04/world/facebook-data-leak/
