Hackers Leaked 533 Million Facebook Users Personal Details

It has been announced that 533 million Facebook users have had their personal information leaked online by hackers.

Private data has now been circulating since January. According to sources, the hack was only discovered when security researcher Alon Gal saw a user on a hacking forum posted the entire dataset public. 

It has been discovered that roughly 32 million of the exposed users are from the U.S.; 11 million, the U.K.; and 6 million, India. Some of the leaked information includes essential information, like locations, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates and other personal information were shared. Anyone who wanted access to the information could search the database for a small price. 

Sources are saying that the hack was made possible due to a fault in Facebook that the company fixed in 2019 — the hackers made use of data from before the fix. There’s now pressure on Facebook to notify users who have been affected by the hack.