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3 Apr 2021 · National · Technology
Data Leak / Misconfiguration CRITICAL ✓ Verified

What happened

A historic archive of scraped Facebook account profiles was published for free online. The dataset contained highly sensitive, verified mobile numbers, full names, account locations, and birthdates of over 7 million domestic Australian citizens, harvested via an exploited sync vulnerability.

Incident details

Organisation
Facebook
Date
3 Apr 2021
Attack type
Data Leak / Misconfiguration
Severity
CRITICAL
Sector
Technology
State
National
Records affected
533000000
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

techradar.com ↗
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