Data of 1.5B Facebook Users Reportedly on Sale at Hacker Forum
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Amid global outage of Facebook along with its associated platforms, the data
of its over 1.5 Billion users are now being sold in the dark web.
A report said the data are being sold on a Hacker Forum.
Sputnik News reported that in late September, an announcement was posted on a hacking forum that claimed to have the name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID of 1.5 billion Facebook users.
Also See: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Down in Global Outage
A report said the data are being sold on a Hacker Forum.
Sputnik News reported that in late September, an announcement was posted on a hacking forum that claimed to have the name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID of 1.5 billion Facebook users.
Also See: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Down in Global Outage
“One prospective buyer has allegedly been quoted at $5,000 per 1 million
Facebook accounts.
“This would value the entire set of Facebook user data at $7.5 million.
“In a subsequent post, the seller alleges to represent a large company that works to scrape Facebook for data”.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline Monday evening, Nigerian time.
“This would value the entire set of Facebook user data at $7.5 million.
“In a subsequent post, the seller alleges to represent a large company that works to scrape Facebook for data”.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline Monday evening, Nigerian time.
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