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| Mark Zuckerberg's data appeared in Facebook leaks |
The phone number of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) was found in the personal information posted on the Internet from the hacker forums.
Multiple media outlets reported allegations that Zuckerberg's personal information had been leaked and revealed their details, including name, location, marriage dates, date of birth, and Facebook account.
User posted on forum to steal personal information of hundreds of millions of users on Facebook online platform for free.
The data contains the personal data of more than 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries / regions.
Network researcher Dave Walker said Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz, the Facebook founders, are one of the 533 million users who have revealed personal information.
Walker wrote on Twitter: In regards to the Facebook leak of #FacebookLeak, ironically, Mark Zuckerberg is also included in the 533 million people who have been leaked.
A Facebook spokesperson said: This is old data reported in 2019. We recognized this issue and fixed it in August 2019. We have not commented on Zuckerberg's information.
The dataset can now be posted on hacker forums for free, so anyone can use it at scale.
Although the leaked data is two years old, it provides valuable information to cybercriminals who use personal information to impersonate or deceive people into revealing their credentials.
Previous breaches of Facebook data included the widespread story of Cambridge Analytica.
Political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica received personal data from 87 million Facebook users.
Facebook fined Facebook 5 billion dollars. This is a partial solution to companies' mismanagement of user data.
As a result, Facebook has pledged to take action against data breaches, and after Cambridge Analytica found out in a blog post on its website: it is taking action against leaks that may have occurred in the past and is taking action. More stringent precautions to avoid future leakage.