How could this new leak affect users?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:53 am
The danger of this information being freely circulated on pirate forums is that cybercriminals can be more precise in their attacks to impersonate anyone . Knowing your details and who your friends and relationships are on the social network, they could coordinate phishing attacks (identity theft) to ask friends or acquaintances for money, or carry out procedures in your name, etc.
That information had been sold and resold among finland business email database cybercriminals for some time, but Saturday's leak on the hacker forum now makes it freely available, making it widely available to anyone with rudimentary data literacy.
" This is old data, which was reported in 2019. We found and fixed this vulnerability in August of that year ," Facebook said in a statement sent to the media. Despite the seriousness of the leak, Facebook has not yet provided information on the possible origin of this security flaw and on the measures it will take to prevent similar hacks in the future.
That information had been sold and resold among finland business email database cybercriminals for some time, but Saturday's leak on the hacker forum now makes it freely available, making it widely available to anyone with rudimentary data literacy.
" This is old data, which was reported in 2019. We found and fixed this vulnerability in August of that year ," Facebook said in a statement sent to the media. Despite the seriousness of the leak, Facebook has not yet provided information on the possible origin of this security flaw and on the measures it will take to prevent similar hacks in the future.