Personal data from 267 million Facebook users discovered in an unsecured database

Facebook users have been exposed again. Today, says that 267 million Facebook members had their User IDs, names and phone numbers left unsecured on the internet where they were not protected by a password or any other form of authentication. Comparitech teamed up with security researcher Bob Diachenko who believes that the data could have come from an illegal scraping operation. Diachenko also discovered evidence that the data could have been the result of Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam.

The researcher said that the information might have stolen from Facebook's ...

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