Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users leaked on dark web
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Days after Facebook and its sibling firms had a 6-hour global outage, claims appeared stating that 1.5 billion Facebook users' data was uncovered for sale on a hacker forum. According to a TechRepublic report, privacy research firm 'Privacy Affairs' has discovered the personal data of over 1.5 billion individuals on a hacker forum, including names, email addresses, localities, genders, phone numbers, and Facebook User ID information.