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December 20, 2019 New case for displaying personal data of users for Facebook. The security company Comparitech would have identified a database containing the personal data of 267 million social network users. The news was published on his website.The amount of personal information could be freely consulted online, without having to enter the password.
The database remained online for about two weeks, from 4 to 19 December, and was also downloadable via a hacker forum.
What may have happened
According to Comparitech the data could have been extrapolated from the platform linked to the application developers (API), or through 'scraping', a technique of extracting data from a site using special software.
The information "online"
The archive contained information such as the 'user ID', which identifies the user, name and phone number. The database remained online until the provider, which contained the information, decided to remove it. Removal that occurred after reporting by searchers.
Facebook comment
"We are examining this problem, but we believe that this is information obtained most probably before the changes we have made in recent years to better protect people's information": this is the comment of a Facebook spokesperson