Find out whether your personal info is amongst 533M leaked Facebook user data

Facebook has been in the crosshairs of most privacy watchdogs ever since the infamous Cambridge-Analytica data scandal. This time, the company is facing flak as data of 533 million FB users was recently posted online on a low level hacking forum for free. This personal user data includes names, mobile numbers, email ids, country, city, along with more sensitive information. 

The latest massive data leak of Facebook’s user information is actually not that recent. The social media website tells Insider that it is data scraped back in 2019, soon after which they claim to have fixed the vulnerability. The data was posted on a forum for free and has been verified online to reveal that it is actually a real data leak. 

The massive trove of user data reportedly fetched $30,000 (approx £21,784) when it was first sold online. It has now been posted by a member of the aforementioned forum for free to gain some site ‘credits,’ which is apparently some form of currency on the forum. Data sold online at high prices could be resold later at a lowered price or made available publicly like the current case, for earning some reputation amongst hackers. 

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