They ensure that the personal data of more than 1,500 million Facebook users is for sale in a hacker forum

This Monday, the “package” was put on the market, and could be purchased in part or in its entirety. The event would not be linked to the collapse of social networks like Instagram or Facebook, nor to the fall of WhatsApp.

The main danger is the use that could be made of this information, which could facilitate advertising campaigns or political lobbying on social media for business scams, phishing, identity theft and other crimes.

A user of the famous forum assured that the seller offered the personal information of one million Facebook users for $ 5,000, while another claimed he made a partial purchase and the person making the offer had not yet finalized the deal.

At Confidentiality matters confirmed that the data sold on Monday is new, not an old listing obtained in a previous attack, and that never in Facebook’s history has there been a breach of such magnitude in its security.

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The “seller” who offers the data in a hacker forum has identified with potential buyers as a group of “web scrapers” that have been active for four years and already have 18,000 customers.

Web scraping is a technique used to steal information from online sites using software.