Reports: Data from 500 million Facebook accounts posted online


Close to 32 million American accounts and 20 million French accounts were among those affected. — AFP Relaxnews

Data affecting more than 500 million Facebook users that was originally leaked in 2019, including email addresses and phone numbers, has been posted on an online hackers forum, according to media reports and a cybercrime expert.

“All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free,” Alon Gal, chief technology officer at the Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence firm, said Saturday on Twitter.

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