200,000 Facebook Marketplace user records found on dark web

As of now, Meta has not responded to the Facebook Marketplace data breach.

According to reports on December 12, 2019, the personal data of 200,000 Facebook Marketplace users was discovered on the dark web. Can be mixed and matched. The leaked data included names, phone numbers, email addresses and Facebook profile information.News of the data breach was first reported on Computer beeps, it said it was found on a dark web forum. The outlet further stated that the data was hacked by someone named “algoatson” on Discord. As of now, Meta has not officially responded to the leaks.

“In October 2023, a cybercriminal named ‘algoatson’ on Discord compromised a contractor that manages cloud services for Facebook and stole part of a user database containing 200,000 entries,” Computer beeps stated in its report.

This is not the first time such a data breach has been reported. In 2021, details of 530 million Facebook users were leaked on an online forum, according to Can be mixed and matched.

The data was initially hacked in 2019 and was finally found floating on the dark web two years later. As a result, Meta was fined 265 million euros for violating the EU’s GDPR, which protects user privacy.

The 2021 data breach also included the phone numbers of Facebook’s three founders – Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz.

How to protect your Facebook data

this New York State Attorney General’s Office Listed are some steps to keep your data safe. all these are:

• Check your active Facebook sessions frequently to prevent unauthorized use of your account
• Check conditions before running Facebook apps and games
• Keep basic profile information vague, such as your hometown, employer, date of birth, and contact information. Set the audience for this post to “Friends” or “Only me”
• Use application-specific privacy controls

In addition to these basic steps, users can change their account password and turn on two-factor authentication as a second layer of verification.