Information from more than 260 million Facebook users is leaked

Privacy has been one of the most discussed topics by all the media this 2019. A few days after the end of the year we know a new leak of Facebook's databases. The technology company that is receiving the most attack from the media in relation to privacy is Facebook and it is that its successive leaks make the insecurity of the users possible in the face of the explanations of the Zuckerberg company. This time it is information from 267 over millions of users among which are names, emails, phone numbers, etc.

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The most serious thing about this issue around the new Facebook data leak is not the content itself, which is also, but the duration of the data exposure. Thanks to the consulting firm Comparitech and a series of developers have been able to know that the December 4 the database where that information was stored is published. Eight days later, on December 12, that database was leaked to a hacker website. Two days later, on December 14, the request to remove the IP from the server was discovered and immediately reported and applied. Finally, on December 19, that information disappeared from the map.

However, we do not know the extent to which the information in this database has reached. Data were collected such as the Facebook ID, the phone number and the full name. Another key to solving this issue is to determine how this information has been reached. There are two hypotheses. In the first place, that the information was prior to the modification of Facebook's security terms in 2018. Secondly, it may be that they have developed algorithms that could collect information that users have in public and it was stored automatically. in a database.

The leaked information can be used by hackers to carry out phishing campaigns using SMS, for example. From Actualidad iPhone and security consultancies we recommend that you modify the privacy settings of your Facebook account, allowing only your friends to see information as sensitive as your full name, your addresses or even your phone number.