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Over a billion Facebook users have data sold on the dark web

October 5, 2021

Via: TechRadar

Personally identifiable information (PII) of over 1,5 billion Facebook users is reportedly being sold on a popular underground forum, according to cybersecurity and privacy watchdogs.

The data, which has reportedly been collected through web scraping, includes names, emails, phone numbers, location, gender, and user IDs.

Calling it one of the biggest data dumps from the popular social network, Miklos Zoltan, the founder of PrivacyAffairs who shared the news of the underground sale, claims the PII “appears to be authentic.”

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