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Phone numbers of 6 Lakh Indian Facebook users being sold on Telegram

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Facebook has been caught in yet another privacy and user data breach incident as phone numbers of nearly 6 Lakh Indian users are being sold on Telegram through a bot. The Indian user data is part of a database of 500 Mn Facebook users and their phone numbers which are being sold on the messaging app. The Telegram leak is related to a previous security incident, which Facebook had admitted to in late 2019 and later fixed.