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Over a billion Facebook users have had their private account information stolen in one of the largest data breaches in social media history.
A cybercriminal using the alias ByteBreaker claims to have scraped 1.2 billion Facebook records and is now selling the data on the dark web.
Scraping, or web scraping, involves using automated tools to collect large amounts of data from websites, similar to copying and pasting information at scale.
Cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews revealed that the stolen data includes names, user IDs, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, gender information, and location data such as city, state, and country.
Investigators say ByteBreaker exploited a flaw in a specific Facebook tool designed to let apps or programs access user data.
If verified, ByteBreaker’s trove would represent the largest single data-scraping incident from a social media platform to date.
Officials are urging all Facebook users to change their passwords, freeze their credit, and activate fraud alerts on their bank accounts.
They warn that the dataset scraped by ByteBreaker contains enough information for cybercriminals to open credit cards in victims’ names or access their financial accounts.
More at:
www.dailymail.co.uk
A cybercriminal using the alias ByteBreaker claims to have scraped 1.2 billion Facebook records and is now selling the data on the dark web.
Scraping, or web scraping, involves using automated tools to collect large amounts of data from websites, similar to copying and pasting information at scale.
Cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews revealed that the stolen data includes names, user IDs, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, gender information, and location data such as city, state, and country.
Investigators say ByteBreaker exploited a flaw in a specific Facebook tool designed to let apps or programs access user data.
If verified, ByteBreaker’s trove would represent the largest single data-scraping incident from a social media platform to date.
Officials are urging all Facebook users to change their passwords, freeze their credit, and activate fraud alerts on their bank accounts.
They warn that the dataset scraped by ByteBreaker contains enough information for cybercriminals to open credit cards in victims’ names or access their financial accounts.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14739873/facebook-users-data-stolen-historic-breach.html1.2b social media users' data stolen: Freeze your credit NOW
A cybercriminal going by the alias 'ByteBreaker' has claimed that they've scraped 1.2 billion records from a social media giant's platform and is now selling the data on the dark web.
