{"id":20911,"date":"2021-04-09T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valeurbit.com\/blog\/?p=20911"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:40:45","slug":"facebook-users-phone-numbers-fell-into-the-hands-of-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valeurbit.com\/blog\/facebook-users-phone-numbers-fell-into-the-hands-of-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook users&#8217; phone numbers fell into the hands of hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Information about 533 million users of the social network Facebook ended up in the hands of unknown persons who started trading it through\u00a0Telegram\u00a0.\u00a0This is\u00a0reported by\u00a0The Verge, citing data security researcher Alon Gala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Telegram bot offers information about a social network user for $ 20.\u00a0For example, this could be a real phone number that is required to register with Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bot activity has been recorded since mid-January 2021, it is still functioning.\u00a0It is noted that the data in it refers to a large-scale leak on Facebook, which was corrected back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information about 533 million users of the social network Facebook ended up in the hands of unknown persons who started trading it through\u00a0Telegram\u00a0.\u00a0This is\u00a0reported by\u00a0The Verge, citing data security researcher Alon Gala. 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