Hacker sold 267 Million Facebook users data at only Rs.41,500($540)


After "Zoom" app is targeted by hacker,the giant of the social media Facebook again get the alligation of leaked user data.The 267 Millions of users data sol on dark web only Rs.41500 orv 540 Dollar.Cyble research team tweeted about this users data data selling incident.


Lucky no passwords are available.But those consist Name,Date of birth,Facebook ID,addresses and phone numbers.

Many of the people think that what they do with this information?That's information are not as personal as bank account or ATM pin.

Ans. This information is the perfect set of information to do a phishing attach.A hacker can arrange a phishing attack with those information and if people do not realize that they are trapped they give more confidential information about them self.That happens like someone clicked a link which addressed to a spoofed Facebook login and they enter their details and the hacker get it.





Few times ago Facebook loses its reputation because of Cambridge Analytica Scandal which is related to user data breaches and selling user data.In those days Facebook is desperate to gain its reputation among the user but they loses again.They have to do more strong steps to secure user data.



Even passwords of accounts are not leaked.We insist you to change your Facebook password ans advised you to enable two factor authentication.This can safe your account from 90% possible attacks.The feature is in the settings→Security→ Login

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