More Than 267 Million Facebook Records Leaked Online
A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access.
According to Comparitech, Bob Diachenko, security researcher, uncovered the Elasticsearch cluster and believes the trove of data is the result of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam, according to the evidence. The information contained in the database could be used to conduct large-scale SMS spam and phishing campaigns, among other threats to end users, says the news report.