Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s phone number and other details were leaked in the recent data leak, a security researcher claimed.
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The private information of the Facebook founder was in the cache published online, which Facebook dismissed as “very old” and probably posed no threat to anyone.
A cybersecurity researcher, Dave Walker, claimed that this data breach also contained Zuckerberg’s contact information. His data is among the 32 million users (3.2 crores) in the United States whose data has been leaked.
“All 533,000,000 Facebook records were leaked for free,” said Alon Gal, chief technology officer of the cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock, on Twitter on Saturday.
All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.
So if you have a Facebook account, it is very likely that the phone number used on the account has been leaked.
I have not yet seen Facebook recognize this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8
– Alon Gal (Under the Break) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021 ×
Data from over 553 million (53 crores) Facebook users has been available in a hacking forum since January. It was found that the hacker provided data that included details such as phone numbers and other personal information free of charge.
This data breach includes information about users from around 106 countries including India. It is reported that data from 11 million users in the UK and six million users in India will be found in this data leak.
(With contributions from agencies)
