Abril 06, 2021 – 03:04 p. m.
2021-04-06
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Agencia AFP
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The Irish digital authority warned of possible spams or intrusions in internet accounts, as a result of the hacking of the data of more than 500 million Facebook users, mainly in Europe, according to a statement received this Tuesday by AFP.
The digital authority DPC reported that personal data “that appears to come from Facebook appeared on a freely accessible hacking website this weekend that contains the data of 533 million people,” including a “significant number of European users.”
Some of this data dates back to 2018 and others “could be more recent,” added the DPC, which said it had not received “any information in advance from Facebook” and that it was still waiting to receive the communication from this social network.
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Stolen data, including emails and phone numbers, expose you to “spam for marketing purposes, but users should also be on the lookout for any service that requires authentication with a phone number or email address, for if third parties try to access “the accounts in question.
It is not the first time that data from millions of users of the main social network, which has almost 2,800 million monthly users, has been published on the internet.
A Facebook spokesperson said over the weekend that the hacked data was “old” and that its leak “had already been reported in the media in 2019.”
“We identified and fixed this problem in August 2019,” he said.
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Revealed in 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, named after a British company that unauthorized use of the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users for political propaganda purposes, had definitely tarnished the social network’s reputation in this matter. data privacy.
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