Amid a Facebook outage, 1.5 billion users' data has been put up for sale.

ByFaisal Chughtai | Published date:
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While Facebook was experiencing a major outage that lasted almost 6 hours, hackers took advantage of the situation to expose the personal information of roughly 1.5 billion Facebook members. This personal data database was for sale on a dark web forum.

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This was revealed in Twitter images of an unknown dark web forum post selling the personal data of over 1.5 billion Facebook members. For those who are unaware, the dark web can only be accessed via a unique programme known as Tor and cannot be discovered by standard online search engines such as Google. The dark web is a popular location for hackers to perform illicit operations since it is simpler to remain anonymous.

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According to the dark web article, this huge information was scrapped this year and contains phone numbers as well as email addresses.Worse, Facebook's site domain was also on the market. Another image obtained from domaintools.com plainly shows Facebook's web domain up for sale. However, since the domain is no longer for sale, the domain tools page has normalised.

In related news, Facebook has just recovered from a massive outage that lasted about 6 hours and affected over 10 million users worldwide. This outage took down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all at once.

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