Researcher Dave Walker said in addition to Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founders Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz were on the list of 533 million users whose data leaked online.
According to The Sun, Zuckerberg's leaked data are all publicly available because the Facebook CEO is a celebrity. However, this also shows the scale of the leak.
"These are old data and have been reported before, from 2019. We found the cause and fixed the problem in August 2019," Liz Bourgeois, Facebook spokesperson, wrote on Twitter. . However, the Facebook representative did not mention the cause of the data leak, as well as details of the troubleshooting process. This makes many users wonder.
"How did Facebook fix the problem? Facebook said it fixed the problem but obviously, everything is still there, everyone can download our data," replied one Twitter account. "I was the victim of this data leak. How can I change the date of birth, email and other data in it?", Another account asked. "Facebook has informed my users whether or not everything is silently done. I have not received any notification from Facebook and without these announcements, I still think my account is not hacked," Another urgent account.
The Facebook incident was first discovered by Hudson Rock, a cybercrime intelligence agency, on April 3. The data was discovered by Alon Gal, Chief Technology Officer at Hudson Rock, in January, when a member of the software platform extracted phone numbers from the social network account. About 3 months later, the data is provided for free on the forum. Business Insider tried to look at some of the data samples in the above records and said that they match and exactly match those of the Facebook users mentioned.
The entire data above is free to download will be dangerous when bad guys can use the information to cheat or attack users.
This is not the first time Facebook has been in trouble with data disclosure. Previously, their biggest scandal related to Cambridge Analytica in 2018 revealed 87 million accounts were collected for the 2016 US presidential election. Since then, a series of security scandals related to user data is detected. Facebook was also fined a record $ 5 billion by the US Federal Trade Commission.
