Facebook Says Investigating Data Exposure Of 267M Users
December 20, 2019
4:09 pm
Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online.
The database was made available for download last week on an online hacker forum that apparently belonged to a crime group, according to a blog post on the website Comparitech.
“We are looking into this issue, but believe this is likely information obtained before changes we made in the past few years to better protect people’s information,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP.
Comparitech said that security researcher Bob Diachenko spotted the database, which …
