A bad year for Facebook Inc and its associates including Whatsapp as they are in the top of the list for data vulnerability and its privacy policy. A Facebook users data which was leaked in 2019 went upon sale in the dark web through telegram bot. Almost 61,62,450 Indian users privacy affected as per report which may help scammers to scam the people or hack into the phone using phone numbers. This also may lead to sending spam messages and ads.
The most worrying part is that the people who created bot has given access to everyone to get personal data of any Facebook user including phone number by providing Facebook ID or phone number alternatively.
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Anyhow the data available through a telegram bot is not for free, its completely paid one. You need credit to access the data and you can buy credit for $20 and 10,000 credit for $5000 as a discount offer.
Below is the list of Facebook users affected by the country.
Even FB has corrected their mistakes with the poor setup of server, the data lost cannot be retrieved and phone numbers will be used for many years by the individuals. Facebook has never apologized for their mistakes. It is said that many celebrities phone numbers have also been disclosed to hackers.
All credit goes to Alon Gal, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, who discovered this malicious activity.
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