New leakage of Facebook user data, including private messages

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Little more than a month has passed since the last major Facebook data breach, and now there is more unpleasant news for users of the social network. Using malicious browser extensions, cybercriminals are alleged to have harvested the data of tens of millions of people, including private messages.

What happened?

A BBC investigation reported that an online forum was offering to sell the personal data of 120 million Facebook users, at 10 cents per individual profile. To prove the value of the data, a small part of the database was made publicly available, consisting of data for 257,000 users, including the private messages of about a third (81,000) of them.

The claim that 120 million accounts are at risk of exposure cannot, of course, be confirmed or refuted without access to the full version of the database. However, according to the BBC journalists who checked the data, everything appears to suggest that the leaked portion of the archive is real.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/facebook-...ons/24496/