The Indian non-profit association CyberSpace has warned of a new possible data leak according to a new post on an information trading forum. The malicious actor claims to have collected up to 100,000 lines of personal data from Facebook users.
The data that would be included in the file are: full name, profile, email, phone number and location. From CyberSpace They are analyzing whether the actor belongs to a cybercriminal group, a hacktivist organization, or if he is an isolated individual.
Although, based on the specified information, the leak does not appear to include passwords or sensitive data, this data could be used to direct phishing campaigns to affected users, taking advantage of the published email and telephone contact methods.
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🚨 #DataBreach Alert⚠️: Allegedly, 100k lines of fresh user data from Facebook (Meta) have surfaced on a data breach forum. Data includes full names, profiles, emails, phone numbers, and locations.
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June 11, 2024 • 17:02
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Meta has not yet commented on this alleged attack. This alert once again reminds Facebook users, as well as other social networks, of the importance of not including more personal data than is essential in their accounts, as well as being alert to possible phishing or vishing scams that may use their name and location data to give the scams a legitimate appearance.
CyberSpace, located in New Delhi, is a non-profit association that seeks to “make the Internet a safer, stable, reliable and inclusive place for all Internet users around the world.”
Italy denounces Meta
Meta is in a delicate position in Europe not only because of the great controversy caused after the announcement that they would use the posts of their users to train their artificial intelligence, but because last Wednesday, the Italian Competition Authority denounced the company. Mark Zuckerberg for the lack of transparency in the use of its users’ data for commercial purposes. According to the entity, Meta did not adequately inform users about the processing of their data for advertising purposes during the account opening process. The complaint was also caused by Meta’s malpractice regarding the suspension of several Instagram and Facebook accounts.
According to the Italian body, “Meta did not indicate how it decided to suspend the Facebook accounts, whether as a result of an automated or ‘human’ review.” Nor did they provide “information to Facebook and Instagram users about the possibility of challenging the suspension of their accounts (they can go to an extrajudicial dispute resolution body or a judge),” they say from the institution.
In response to this complaint, which requires Facebook to pay 3.5 million euros, Meta points out that they have improved the information on how users can appeal the decision to suspend an account.
In the general framework, Meta faces complaints registered with almost all consumer protection authorities in Europe due to its opacity in dealing with the change in its policies that will take place on June 26, when they will begin collecting data. of posts on Instagram and other networks to train your own artificial intelligence model.
