They disclosed the data of more than 2 million Argentinian Facebook users

The personal data of some 500 million Facebook users in 106 countries was disclosed for free by a user in a hacking forum, US media revealed on Sunday, while the social network said it was ‘an issue that had been resolved in 2019. Of the total, more than 2 million are Argentinian users.

According to Business Insider, the exposed data, which includes phone numbers, Facebook ID, names, locations, emails, among others. The publication said it looked at leaked data such as phone numbers and email addresses.

“A database of this size containing private information, such as the phone numbers of many Facebook users, would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to carry out social engineering attacks (or) hacking attempts. ” Cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock officer, told the outlet.

On Twitter, Gal noted that the tapes were leaked “for free” and said that means if someone has a Facebook account, “it is very likely that the phone number used for the account has been leaked.”

“I have yet to see Facebook recognize this absolute neglect with its data,” he said. Facebook spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois noted on Twitter that “this is old data that has already been reported in 2019”.

“We found and fixed this problem in August 2019,” he concluded.

Facebook has been involved in numerous scandals related to its handling of privacy in the past, the most notorious of which is that of UK consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which used an app to collect millions of data from internet users. on the platform without their consent. for political purposes.