The news of data leaks of social networking platform Facebook has become common now. This year, data leaks of around 700 million users of different 700 million have been done through different platforms. According to the new data leak case, the Vietnam-based firm has given information about the leakage of phone numbers, photos and usernames of 267 million Facebook users of the new 267 million. Actually, on December 9, personal information of these users was leaked on the Vietnamese Elasticsearch server. Within three days, this data was available for download with different hacker firms. Information about the breech was revealed on 14 December, when researcher Bob DiChenko spotted data from about 1.2 billion people. These data were leaked from various social media platforms. Let's know in full detail
For your information, let us tell you that this is not the first time that Elasticsearch has come in the headlines for the first time this year. Even at the beginning of the year, 4TB data dumps were available on this server, including personal information uploaded on users' social media platforms. These data were originated by different data brokerage firms such as California-based data broker firm People Data Labs.
Facebook has increased the security of the server significantly in the last two years to prevent users' personal information from being leaked, but in spite of this, hackers and data brokerage firms are able to leak the data of users. Let us tell you that after the Cambridge Analytica Data Breach was revealed last year, the data of millions of users of Facebook around the world were revealed. After this, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of the social media platform Facebook, had to clarify this data leak in front of the US Congress.
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