1.5 Billion Facebook User Data Claimed To Be Sold to Hacker Forums

 


Just finished the problem of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram down, there is another new blow for Mark Zuckerberg. 1.5 billion Facebook user data is claimed to have been leaked by hackers.

To be precise, as much as 1.5 billion Facebook user data is offered on hacker forums. The data being peddled is said to contain user names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers.


This is claimed by Russian Privacy Affairs. They said the offer was uploaded by the seller when WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down together on Tuesday (5/10).



So far it has not been confirmed whether the report is true. Similarly, whether the data has anything to do with the Facebook access problem that occurred yesterday, it has not been confirmed.



Apart from that, quoting from Gizchina, Wednesday (6/10/2021) there are several parties who are trying to buy some Facebook user data. But the buyer claims that the seller is doing a scam.


They did not receive any data after paying USD 5,000 or Rp. 71.3 million. Such indications suggest that the seller may not have the data he claims.


However, all Facebook users should be very wary of any unusual activity on their accounts.


Because at the end of September this year, some people posted claims that they had 1.5 billion Facebook user data. They offer every one million user data for USD 5,000.


This means that if the buyer wants to have 1.5 billion data, it will cost around USD 7.5 million or Rp. 106.9 billion. If this were true, it would be the biggest in terms of user data leaks.


It was previously reported that Facebook experienced access problems for 6 hours on Tuesday. Facebook's Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure Santosh Janardhan revealed the cause of the disruption.


According to Janardhan, during routine maintenance, an order was sent to check the availability of the backbone network that connects all of Facebook's computing facilities. But this command actually broke the connection and a bug in Facebook's internal audit system could not prevent the execution of this command.


Once the technicians entered the server area, they managed to bring the backbone back online and slowly restore service. This is what makes the Facebook service recovery process take a long time, because if it is completely restored immediately it will cause a more severe crash.


"Every failure like this is an opportunity to learn and get better, and there's a lot we can learn from this event," Janardhan said.


"After each issue, small and large, we undertook an extensive review process to understand how we could build a more robust system. The process has already begun," he concluded.

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