While researchers discovered a few days ago that 530,000 accounts of the Zoom video conferencing application were for sale on the dark web, information from Bleeping Computer reveals that 267 million Facebook accounts were also found there . Once again, the price displayed defied all competition: 500 pounds, or just 568 euros.
This time, the passwords of the affected users, mostly American, were not available. However, this data included for some of them their full name, their identifiers, their email address, their date of birth and their telephone number. Extremely valuable information for hackers specializing in phishing, this malicious practice which makes it possible to recover personal information from a user by posing as a legitimate actor.
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According to the researcher who discovered the leak, Bob Diachenko, the criminal organization behind this sale stole information from Facebook's API before it was deleted. This assumption has not yet been confirmed by the social network.
Fortunately, the cybersecurity company Cyble, which had already discovered the leak of the 530,000 Zoom accounts, decided to buy this personal data before other malicious hackers took it. Cyble also recommends that Facebook users be particularly careful with their account privacy settings, and beware of questionable emails and text messages.