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Beware of Facebook users,500 million users' data sold by hackers, users in troubl

 Beware of Facebook users,500 million users' data sold by hackers, users in trouble



San Francisco It was not long before WhatsApp left a scandal regarding the privacy policy of the users which was protested by the users all over the world, and finally the WhatsApp management had to change its policy. A similar fault has also occurred in Facebook that Facebook's data was not sold by the administration but hackers did.

The data application of more than 50 million Facebook users has been sold on Telegram. According to an international media report, the data of more than 50 million users who have created accounts on Telegram for Rs 600,000. Other companies have been sold. According to the report of the technology monitoring website Motherboard, the data of Facebook users and their numbers have been sold to various companies through telegram bot.

The agency also shared details of some of the numbers sold on the Internet. The report said the hackers gained access to the data of users who had created a Facebook and Telegram account from the same number. This data is not for users in a particular country, but for people using the app worldwide, under which their Facebook account information is also provided to the purchasing company.

The agency also released a list of names of countries, fortunately, it does not include the name of Pakistan. Hackers resorted to telegram bots (unknown numbers) to sell data and created it on Facebook. The report states that this is not the first time this has happened to social media users, but even in 2019, hackers have been able to access the database for more than Rs 41 crore. After stealing the secure data of most of the users and selling it from Facebook, Facebook later confirmed that the security flaw has been removed, and now the data of the users is completely safe.

But now the same story has been repeated once again, so users will now have to be serious about their data and use caution while using social media. Facebook: 500 million users sell data for Rs 600,000

According to the report of India Today, the data of more than 500 million users who have created accounts on Telegram has been sold to other companies for 600,000 Indian rupees.

The technology monitoring website Motherboard revealed in its report that the data and numbers of Facebook users have been sold to various companies through TelegramBot.

A report by security watchdog Alon Gall states that the data was sold for just Rs 600,000.

The company has also shared details of some of the numbers sold on the internet.

The report states that the hackers gained access to the data of users who had created a Facebook and Telegram account from the same number. People, under which their Facebook account information is also provided to the buyer company. The organization also released a list of names of countries, fortunately, it does not include the name of Pakistan.

It should be noted that this incident did not happen for the first time with social media users but even in 2019, hackers stole the secure data of more than 41 crore users from Facebook and sold it. Which was later confirmed by Facebook.

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