419 Million Facebook Users Accounts Exposed Due to Leaky Database

Facebook has once more suffered a Cambridge Analytica like incident. This time, the researcher determined thousands and thousands of Facebook customers’ records exposed on-line on an unsecured server. The database allegedly leaked details of over 419 million Facebook customer accounts.

419M Facebook Users Accounts Data Leaked

Security researcher Sanyam Jain who has previously reported several unsecured databases has made a similar discovery. The researcher stumbled upon an open database exposing details of thousands and thousands of Facebook customer accounts.

According to the info he shared with TechCrunch, the unsecured server he found contained over 419 million customers’ records. This is a huge number – akin to the data uncovered in the course of the Cambridge Analytica incident.

Of this 419 million information, almost half of the information comes from customers from three nations only. Specifically, 133 million information which belonged to US-based customers, 50 million data to Vietnam customers and 18 million records belonged to the UK users. The exposed records covered the specific Facebook ID of the customers and the related cellphone numbers. Whereas for some data, customers’ names, gender, and place have been additionally present.

TechCrunch could also affirm the authenticity of those data by checking some of the recognized bills.

Facebook Claims No Compromise

Jain and TechCrunch were able to decide the leaky database’s ownership and reported the matter to the net host, following which, the leaky database went offline.

As for Facebook, when contacted, officials claim that the accounts remained uncompromised. A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch about the opportunity of the database to have scraped facts.