Facebook Data Leak: Exposes Hundreds Of Millions Of Users Phone Numbers

Facebook Massive Data Breach-Exposes Hundreds Of Millions Of Users’ Phone Number's.

Tech Giant Facebook another Data Breach, this time an exposed server on the web was found leaking the data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. As first reported by the TechCrunch, Wednesday that a server on web-which did not belong to Facebook but was evidently not password protected and therefore available to anyone who could find it-was discovered online by the TechCrunch Security researcher Sanyam Jain and found more 419 million Facebook users phone numbers, including 133 records on users based in the U.S.,18 million from the UK, and 50 million users records from Vietnam.

A redacted set of records from the U.K. database. The “44” indicates +44, the U.K.’s country code and the “7” indicates a cell phone number.

TechCrunch said it was able to cross-check them to verify records and additionally found that in some cases, records included a user’s country, name, and gender. The report stated that it’s unclear who scraped the data from Facebook or why. The Facebook spokesperson said that the company became aware of the situation a few days ago but would not specify an exact date.

Facebook Spokesperson insisted that,

"The exposed data was “old” and would have been scrapped prior to the April 2018 policy change.“This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers,” a spokeswoman said in a statement. “The dataset has been taken down and we have seen no evidence that Facebook accounts were compromised.”The spokeswoman did not respond to questions about whether Facebook would inform users whose information was exposed or offer any mitigation to those affected, saying only that the company was still investigating.

As, recently twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey's account Hacked by the process on "simswapping", On Wednesday, Tech Giant Twitter announced that it was temporarily disabling the ability for users to send tweets through SMS, or text messages, due to “vulnerabilities that need to be addressed by mobile carriers”.