Data of 533 million Facebook users leaked online, here is how you can check if you are safe

In a massive data breach, the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked online.

In a massive data breach, the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked online.The data included the contact number, Facebook IDs, birthdates, and more of users. As per the Business Insider report, personal information of over 3.2 crore users in the US, 1.1 crores in the UK, and 60 lakh in India were exposed. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other co-founders Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz were among the affected users. Security expert Alon Gal first reported the Facebook data breach on Twitter. He said, “all 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked. I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data”. Gal, who is the CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock said that the Phone number, Facebook ID, Full name, Location, Past Location, Birthdate, (Sometimes) Email Address, Account Creation Date, Relationship Status, Bio of the users were exposed in the data leak.