Facebook has had a bad reputation at keeping its user data secure. Last week, 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.” That number includes more than 32 million U.S. users alone, and spans 106 countries in total.

All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked.

I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8

— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021

Here’s how to check if your FACEBOOK data was breached –

A third-party breach notification website run by creator and security expert Troy Hunt, HaveIBeenPwned, makes it simple to check by typing in your email. The search will reveal if you were involved in the most recent data leak or any other major leak over the last few years.

I’ve had a heap of queries about this. I’m looking into it and yes, if it’s legit and suitable for @haveibeenpwned it’ll be searchable there shortly. https://t.co/QPLZdXATpt

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 3, 2021

User data related to user’s private information like phone number, name, email ID, names of workplaces, date of birth, date of account creation, and other personal identifiable information have been leaked online for free.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Wednesday it had launched an inquiry into Facebook Inc, after a dataset reported to contain personal data relating to some 533 million Facebook users worldwide was made public.

The DPC said that having considered information provided by the social media giant, it was of the opinion that one or more provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) and/or the Data Protection Act 2018 “may have been, and/or are being, infringed in relation to Social Media Users’ personal data.”

The DPC is the European Union’s lead regulator of Facebook, Apple, Google and other technology giants under the GDPR’s “One Stop Shop” regime, due to the location of their EU headquarters in Ireland.

The social media company said it found and fixed the issue in August 2019 and its confident the same route can no longer be used to scrape that data.

On asking if users will be notified individually, here’s how the social media giant responded.

“We don’t currently have plans to notify users individually,” a company spokesman told NPR. 

According to the spokesman, the company does not have complete confidence in knowing which users would need to be notified. He also said that in deciding whether to notify users, Facebook weighed the fact that the information was publicly available and that it was not an issue that users could fix themselves.

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