Over the long Easter weekend, reports emerged of an alleged data breach, impacting half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries.
And while this figure is staggering, there is more to the story than 533 million sets of data. This breach once again highlights how many of the systems we use are not designed to adequately protect our information from cybercriminals.
Nor is it always straightforward to figure out whether your data have been compromised in a breach or not.
Few days ago a user created a Telegram bot allowing users to query the database for a low fee, enabling people to find the phone numbers linked to a very large portion of Facebook accounts.
This obviously has a huge impact on privacy. pic.twitter.com/lM1omndDET
— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) January 14, 2021
What happened?
More than 500 million Facebook users’ details were published online on an underground website used by cybercriminals.
It quickly became clear this was not a new data…
