Facebook's Drastic Data Leak… Again!

News just broke (out) that the information for over half a billion Facebook users has been leaked online.

As far as what the information includes, it's things like phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, email addresses.

As far as how widespread this thing is, users in 106 countries are reportedly affected—including the United States with 32 million users, the UK with 11 million and India with 6 million.

The leaked data set is reportedly from 2019, but it's still very much a problem despite being a couple of years old now.

Personally, my major concern is that cyber criminals can actually access these information to impersonate other people, or even scam them into handing over their login credentials.

In fact, the leaked data was first discovered back in January when a user in a low-level hacking forum offered to sell the info as part of an automated bot.

Although, what ended up happening, is that someone else leaked the information for free.

So, if you'd like to see if you've been affected by this leak, there are a couple of ways to do so.

For example, there's this web security consultant, Troy Hunt, uploading affected email addresses to haveibeenpwned.com.

Here's a link to the site.

It also sends uploaded affected phone numbers.

And while there are other sites that are offering these kinds of services, they're less well-known. So, for that reason, I'm not going to be linking to those.