267 Million Facebook Users’ Data Sold Out for Rs. 87,105!

Considering the data to contain information like email addresses, Facebook ID’s, date of birth and phone numbers. This can be used by cyber criminals for spamming and phishing.

After exposing the sale of some 500,000 Zoom accounts on the dark web, the cyber researchers’ team shocked the world with the story of sensitive information being sold on secretive data markets. The price of the information was 500 euros and it contains sensitive information of 267 Million Facebook users.

However, a sigh of relief for the users that no passwords were available, but the data included email addresses, names, Facebook IDs, dates of birth, and phone numbers. All of this information is perfect data to be used for text or email phishing campaigns on behalf of Facebook.

Noticeably, this can lead to the stealing of much more valuable data. If, even a small amount of users click the link enters their details into a spoofed Facebook login page.

The number of 267 million is a red flag when it comes to Facebook data breaches. Last year, the same incident happened when mostly U.S. records to be found online for sale. However, Facebook recorded a statement saying

“We are looking into this,”

Facebook is anxious to overhaul the reputational damage that began with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and pitched through various data protection, privacy, and ad tracker scandals. There is a high chance that this data is from the past rupture and does not propose current weaknesses with Facebook’s systems.

Even there was no passwords breach; yet, users were advised to change their passwords and to ensure not to reuse a password on Facebook that is being used elsewhere. With email addresses in hand, attackers can match those addresses against breaches which do include passwords and then try various sites. Password reuse is the single biggest enabler of account hijacks.

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