Half a billion Facebook users have their information stolen

533 million Facebook accounts have been exposed.

Not very happy news for those who are using Facebook. According to AFP news agency, the personal data of 533 million Facebook users has been publicly posted to a forum dedicated to hackers. This information will be used by hackers for various purposes, from counterfeiting credit cards, fraud, cyberattacks, advertising, etc.

Quoting expert Alon Gal, co-founder of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, AFP said: “More than half a billion Facebook customer records have just been released online. But we have not seen Facebook have any apology for this carelessness.”

In the 4.0 era, personal information is being considered as one of the “direct gold mines” for many organizations to exploit. From pure business purposes such as customer research, marketing, and advertising to more negative actions such as cyberattacks, frauds, counterfeiting… Because of the importance of customer information, day by day. Nowadays, we often see a lot of cyber attacks targeting big companies just to get this data.

In the past, Facebook or many other large companies have also had customer information stolen. The damage of these attacks is extremely heavy. Regarding the fact that 533 million Facebook profiles have just been made public, the company’s spokesman Liz Bourgeois admitted the incident was accurate and it was part of the data that Facebook has lost since 2019.