Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far

The Facebook data breach claims to leak personal information like phone number, Facebook ID, full name, location, past location, birth date, email address, account creation date, relationship status, and bio information of almost 61 lakh Indian users.

The latest Facebook data breach is claimed to have leaked the personal data of over 533 million users globally. In a country-wise breakup, the claimed data breach reportedly includes the personal information of 6 million users in India. Security researchers have warned that the leaked data can be used to commit fraud by impersonating a person as the leaked data dump includes phone numbers, full name, location, email, and other info. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, posted information around the data breach that is said to have leaked data of close to 533 million users in a series of tweets. "This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked," Gal said in a tweet. Notably, the claimed Facebook data breach isn't new. In January this year, Gal had reported that a vulnerability enabled seeing the phone number linked to every Facebook account was exploited. He added that it was severely under-reported, and now the database became much more worrisome.