New York: Information on more than 500 million Facebook users (users) data is available on a website of hackers. This information appears to be several years old, but it raises questions about the security of detailed information collected by Facebook and other social media sites. The Business Insider website gave information about the availability of data.
According to this website, phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth and email addresses of people from 106 countries are available online. There have been questions on the security of people’s information on Facebook for many years. In 2018, the social media company stopped the facility to search user accounts via phone number after the revelation that political company ‘Cambridge Analytica’ obtained the information of eight and seven million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent. .
In December 2019, a security investigator from Ukraine said that the information of 26.7 million Facebook users is available on the Internet. It is still unclear whether the data that Business Insider has made available is related to the data found in December 2019. “This is old data, which was reported in 2019,” Facebook said in a statement. We fixed this problem in August 2019 itself. ”
