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MADRID.- A group of cybercriminals has put up for sale a set containing the personal data of 120 million user accounts on the social network Facebook, priced at 10 cents US each, containing among other things private messages from those concerned .
The cybercriminals involved have sales data from Facebook accounts for a price of about 10 cents each (although the ad seems to have been removed), and the affected users come mainly from Russia. and Ukraine. This was admitted by the "pirates" themselves, established precisely in Russia, as it took over the Russian service of the BBC.
"Hackers" claimed to have access to user data via malicious extensions of Internet browsers, such as Chrome, Opera and Firefox, as well as third-party extensions. As explained to the above-mentioned media, its database contains 120 million accounts worldwide, of which 2.7 million come from Russia, although the exact figure has been questioned.
This "hacking" would not be related to the data leakage of Cambridge Analytica, according to the "hackers" themselves. The announcement was made in September, when the cybersecurity company Digital Shadows opened the investigation opened by the BBC.
The survey showed that the criminal database contained private messages belonging to more than 81,000 Facebook users. The aforementioned media even contacted some of the affected users, who acknowledged that these messages were theirs.
Similarly, records of other data belonging to 176,000 additional Facebook profiles were found, such as email addresses and phone numbers, that could have been stolen from users who had not protected their accounts.
For its part, Facebook assured the aforementioned media that it was not a security breach on the platform and that it had already asked the authorities to delete the sites containing the stolen data. It did not transcend the identity of any malicious extensions, but the company said it had already warned the "software" platforms.
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