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Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot – The Verge
533 million Facebook users had their phone numbers and other data leaked in 2019. Now, someone is selling access to that data using a Telegram bot, and charging…
Its $20 per number, unless youre buying in bulk
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Someone has gotten their hands on a database full of Facebook users phone numbers, and is now selling that data using a Telegram bot, according to a report by Motherboard. The security researcher who found this vulnerability, Alon Gal, says that the person who runs the bot claims to have the information of 533 million users, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched in 2019.
With many databases,…
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