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- A hacker with access to a database of over 500 million Facebook profiles uses a Telegram bot to reveal a Facebook users' phone number or the Facebook ID associated with a known phone number.
- The hack took advantage of a security vulnerability from 2019 that allowed hackers to link Facebook IDs to their corresponding phone numbers.
- Facebook patched the issue back in 2019, but the Telegram bot can still associate Facebook profiles to phone numbers from that old database.
Facebook has more than 2.74 billion monthly active users as of late September 2020, and a new hack impacts the privacy of nearly a fifth of them. The hack itself isn’t new, as the security breach dates back to August 2019 when it was discovered that anyone could discover the phone number associated with a Facebook profile, or vice-versa. The vulnerability was fixed, but it just resurfaced in the most disturbing way. Somebody monetized a database of over 500 million Facebook users, and it’s now selling phone numbers for $20 via a Telegram bot. Buying in bulk will get you a much better deal.
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Hackers might be selling your Facebook data right now on this rival messaging app originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 06:50:29 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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