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How does this affect your business page? Facebook allows users to access business accounts through their personal profiles.

Users tend to be more relaxed about security when using social sites like Facebook, leaving them vulnerable to hackers. According to the New York Post, as many as 160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised each day. If your data was already scraped it may be too late, but you can lock your account down now to prevent future information from being stolen.Unfortunately, Facebook hacks are quite common. Only use surveys, games and quizzes from known trustworthy sources. In addition, never take Facebook quizzes or grant Facebook apps permission to access your personal information.

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SEE: How to manage passwords: Best practices and security tips (free PDF) (TechRepublic) It's also a good idea to go through a Facebook privacy checkup to be sure there's no errant bits of data sneaking out from places you thought were secure.

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"Every time someone enters one of these surveys or quizzes, they permit the creators of these games to view their personal Facebook information such as full name, email, phone number, location, gender and more," said Zoltan.īecause scraping only requires data to be available, Facebook users should ensure they never set their profiles to public. That's not the only tool attackers use, though: They also use Facebook quizzes like "Which character from X show are you?" in order to harvest data. Scraping: A dangerously simple way to compromise privacyĮvery bit of publicly available data can be "scraped" by a bot and stored in a database, spreadsheet or other kind of file.

The data exposed in this leak, if authentic, "may constitute one of the biggest and most significant Facebook data dumps to date," Privacy Affairs founder and CEO Miklos Zoltan said. Cross-checking the data against known Facebook leaks didn't bring up any matches, which Privacy Affairs said could indicate that this is all new, but legitimate, data.

The seller claims their group has been in operation for at least the past four years and has served more than 18,000 clients in that time. Privacy Affairs said the data they examined from samples provided on the forums appears to be legitimate. There are a total of nearly three billion people on Facebook, which means that data pertaining to up to half of them could be in the hands of bad actors. While the potential for this particular set of data to be exploited may have lessened thanks to its removal from this particular forum, it's unknown if it could end up posted elsewhere or how many buyers may have already purchased some of it. The seller denied the accusations, but as of October 6 the post has been taken down, with a Facebook spokesperson saying the company sent a takedown request. There have been some questions as to the legitimacy of both the seller and the data, with one prospective buyer saying they paid the user but never received any data.

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Each bit of that data could clue an attacker into password challenge answers, allow them to intercept one-time login codes, phish, send scam text messages and more. In particular, the stolen data contains names, email addresses, locations, gender, phone numbers and Facebook User ID information. The fact that the data stolen and for sale is publicly available shouldn't ease anyone's fears: That data can still be used to compromise users' security and privacy. SEE: Security incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Instead, Privacy Affairs said that the data was allegedly obtained by scraping publicly available data shared by Facebook users. Reported by privacy research company Privacy Affairs, the data found for sale doesn't indicate that the seller actually broke into Facebook's systems, nor that its data tied to any other data breach. End user data backup policy (TechRepublic Premium).

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