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267M Facebook Users Had Names, Phone Numbers Leaked On Dark Web 267M Facebook Users Had Names, Phone Numbers Leaked On Dark Web
267M Facebook Users Had Names, Phone Numbers Leaked On Dark Web Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ data has reportedly been leaked to the dark web, according to a new report. Comparitech and security researcher Bob Diachenko reported that he found a database containing 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names that were left exposed on the dark web for anyone to access without password protection or any other authentication. In total, 267,140,436 records were exposed. According to Diachenko, who examined the evidence, the data likely came from “an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam.” Most of the …

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