Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online (engadget.com)

https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/12/20/1921245/over-267-million-facebook-users-reportedly-had-data-exposed-online

https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/19/facebook-data-exposed-online/

More than 267 million Facebook users allegedly had their user IDs, phone numbers and names exposed online, according to a report from Comparitech and security researcher Bob Diachenko. From a report:

That info was found in a database that could be accessed without a password or any other authentication, and the researchers believe it was gathered as part of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse. Dianchenko says he reported the database to the service provider managing the IP address of the server, but the database was exposed for nearly two weeks. In the meantime, he says, the data was posted as a download in a hacker forum. That's a lot of personal data to be floating around in the wild, and as Comparitech notes, it could be used to carry out phishing scams and other foul play.