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The
phone numbers and personal details of more than 500 million
users
have been posted online for free by one user on a low-level hacking forum,
Business Insider
revealed
.
The database appears to be the same set of phone numbers linked to Facebook that has been circulating
in hacker circles since January
and whose existence was first reported by tech publication
Motherboard
, according to
Alon Gal,
co-founder of the Israeli firm of intelligence against cybercrime Hudson Rock.
Reuters could not immediately examine the information, which is offered
for a few euros of digital credit
on a site known to low-level hackers, but Gal said on Saturday that he had
verified the authenticity
of at least some of the data by comparing it with the phone numbers of people he knew.
Other journalists say they
have
also
been able to match known phone numbers
with details in the data dump.
In a statement,
said the data was "very old" and related to an issue it had fixed in August 2019.
Reuters has tried unsuccessfully to contact the person responsible for this leak via Telegram.
Gal told Reuters that Facebook users should be
alert to "social engineering attacks"
from people who may have obtained their phone numbers or other private data in the coming months.
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