Recently, a security researcher named Bob Diachenko found a database of user account info including their name and phone numbers for 267 million Facebook users. Having this data means scammers can start new phishing scams and correlate the data from the phone records to Facebook user profiles. Hackers routinely download user information like this or purchase it on the Dark Web, but the difference with this data is that it has some authenticity since it also contains Facebook user information. And, because it contains phone numbers, it means hackers might be able to set up more sophisticated attacks that could include both a phone scam and an email scam. The survey collected data from 87 million users but this latest leak, according to the researcher, totals 267 million accounts.

Source: Forbes December 19, 2019 21:00 UTC