Leaker says they are offering private details of 500 million Facebook users
By Raphael Satter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leaker says they are offering information on higher than 500 million Facebook Inc users – along with phone numbers and totally different data – nearly completely free.
Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock, talked about on Saturday the database appears to be the similar set of Facebook-linked telephone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard.
Reuters was not immediately succesful of vet the data, which is being supplied for just some euros’ worth of digital credit score rating on a well-known web page for low-level hackers, nonetheless Gal talked about he had verified the authenticity of a minimal of some of the data by evaluating it in the direction of phone numbers of people he knew.
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