Massive Facebook Data Breach Exposes 18 Million Moroccan Users’ Personal Information

Phone numbers, full names, dates of birth and, for some accounts, email addresses... These are the personal data of Moroccan Facebookers and other nationalities that have been posted on a hacker forum, according to the site Business Insider. In a tweet posted on Saturday, Alon Gal, chief technology officer of the anti-cybercrime agency Hudson Rock, warns: "The archives concerning 533 million Facebook accounts have just been released for free." He denounces the "absolute negligence" of the social network. The cybercrime expert believes that malicious people "will certainly use this information for scams, hacking and marketing".

According to the same source, some of the leaked phone numbers remain the property of the owners of the Facebook accounts concerned. "These are old data," a Facebook spokesperson told AFP. The leak of this data "had already been reported in the media in 2019. We found and fixed this problem in August 2019," he added.