"309 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Found Online"

Researchers from a cybersecurity intelligence firm called Cyble discovered a database with 267 million Facebook user profiles, that were being sold on the dark web.  Cyble bought the database, to verify the records, and to add them to their firm's breach notification service.  They bought the database for $540 or about .0002 cents per record.  The records held Facebook users' IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, relationship status, age, and timestamps of the user's last connection.  No passwords were exposed.  The information in the database is still a perfect tool kit for an adversary to start an email or text phishing campaign.  The adversaries could make the texts or emails look like they are from Facebook. 

Naked Security reports: "309 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Found Online"

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