267 Million Facebook Profiles Being Sold For $600 On Dark Web (bleepingcomputer.com) 17
An anonymous reader shares a report: Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. Last month, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an open Elasticsearch database that contained a little over 267 million Facebook records, with most being users from the United States. For many of these records, they contained a user's full name, their phone number, and a unique Facebook ID. The ISP hosting the database eventually took the server offline after being contacted by Diachenko.
Facebook Profile? You can have it. (Score:3)
I have no information on the profile worth a nickel, and apparently $600 for 267 million is alot less than a nickel.
Also, I haven't logged into Facebook for a number of years.
Have at it...
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When the summary talks about SMS attacks to steal credentials, I presume these phone numbers leaked also, so they may have your name and phone number to go with the other data facebook has collected on you (and dont for a second presume its just what you posted or entered into their system.)
The hackers might be just one social engineer away from commandeering your phone number and resetting passwords that rely on mobile phone verificati
$600? (Score:3)
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That's over two millionths of a penny each! Who knew they were worth that much?
The people who paid Facebook hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for that same account data must be pissed.
Shut down FAcEboOk already (Score:1)
and nothing of value will be lost
Facebook "quizzes" (Score:4, Insightful)
Hopefully they'll sell mine (Score:2)
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alternative to check? (Score:2)
the site amibreached.com is a pay site to find out more data...
Is there a non-pay site that will show the details of any data breach?
And how is it legal for companies like that to buy illegal info and then monetize it?
Imagine how much oil you could buy with $600 (Score:2)
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