Phone Number of Facebook CEO
One of the world’s richest men, Mark Zuckerberg had his personal phone number leaked in a database from his own company! The incident of Facebook data leak since the last couple of days is vital, as it contained over 553 million users’ records from various countries.
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. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8 — Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021 The leaked details include the name, their Facebook ID, phone number, gender, and other details like location, education, relationship status, employment, etc if provided. These details are so sensitive that, threat actors can now use this dump to perform impersonation attacks. Also, they may try to target specific individuals with phishing pages to obtain more details like passwords, which in turn can be used for other attacks. The database was divided into several individual records based on countries. And when checked into the US database worth 32 million records, it included the personal phone number of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. The data was claimed to be an old one from 2019, where a hacker obtained by exploited a now-patched vulnerability in Facebook’s Add Friend feature. Though most of the records included in it are old, they’re still worth it in some way. For example, all the phone numbers may not be changed by everyone, which can give rise to phishing-related cyberattacks.
