May 1, 2020 - A hacking group has placed a file of 267 million Facebook profiles up for sale on the dark web for 500 Euros, or a little more than $600 US. Most of the profiles appear to be from Americans and they include a variety of personal data including names, user names, phone numbers and ages. Password information isn't included in the file.

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Securityaffairs.co is reporting that the file appears to have been assembled by scraping data from actual Facebook pages. They are also reporting that a second file from a Vietnamese hacking group has been discovered which includes the 267 million profiles mentioned above, along with an additional 42 million profiles.

Anyone with a Facebook account is urged to make sure that they are using a strong password and that their password for Facebook is unique to that site. Using a weak password could lead to having your account taken over and you being locked out of it entirely.

by Jim Malmberg

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