{"id":121195,"date":"2021-04-03T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online"},"modified":"2021-04-03T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:23:03","slug":"533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online","title":{"rendered":"533 million Facebook users\u2019 phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-and-personal-data-have-been-leaked-online.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A user in a low level hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.<\/p>\n<p>The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and \u2014 in some cases \u2014 email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users\u2019 phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook\u2019s password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user\u2019s phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user in a low level hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}