Facebook has again highlighted an extremely serious problem regarding the security of the platform, and this is because the phone numbers of the users are exposed by someone, and this time directly on the Telegram platform, through a virtual robot.
Someone created a bot on the Telegram platform and asks for money to verify the phone numbers of Facebook users, which shows us again that security is not one of the strengths of the social network, and this is not the first scandal of this kind.
Facebook would have the data of 533 million users exposed by someone, and the database that allows their verification puts many people at risk because this data should be 100% confidential, unfortunately for us.
The virtual bot in Telegram allows associating a Facebook account with a phone number, so anyone can quickly find out how to get in touch with the person they may be following, and this is an extremely serious problem.
A few days ago a user created a Telegram bot allowing users to query the database for a low fee, enabling people to find the phone numbers linked to a very large portion of Facebook accounts.
This obviously has a huge impact on privacy. pic.twitter.com/lM1omndDET
- Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) January 14, 2021
In 2020, Facebook solved the problem due to which the data of 533 million people were exposed, so theoretically it would no longer exist, but it is not excluded that others will appear in the future, and the data of several hundred million people to be exposed.
