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Amidst the ongoing disruptions in Facebook services and its social media platforms, numerous sources are indicating activity on the dark web forums tailored for hackers. According to a post dated September 22nd, the author claims to possess personal information including real names, ages, genders, addresses, phone numbers, etc., of 1.5 billion Facebook accounts. All of this data is being offered for sale at $7.5 million, approximately $5000 per million accounts, as reported by a forum member who inquired about the pricing.
It's worth noting that this vast amount of data was collected by scanning publicly available information of Facebook accounts, aided by computer software rather than sophisticated hacking tools breaching Facebook's server defenses. Another method of harvesting personal data involves applications like the popular 'what will you do in the future' mini-games once prevalent on Facebook, though this approach violates internet user privacy protection laws.Meanwhile, a few hours ago, a search on Domain Tools indicates that the DNS records of the domain facebook.com, including both Address Record (used to point the domain to the 32-bit IPv4 address of the web hosting server) and AAA Record (used to point the domain to an IPv6 address), were disabled. There was an attempt to auction off the domain facebook.com on Unregistry.com. However, it seems that this issue has been resolved, or the domain has been removed from the list of available purchases on this website.https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1445072650720591875The past 24 hours have been tumultuous for the largest social media platform on the planet, as they've had to endure various challenges simultaneously:- Stock prices are plummeting, currently down 5% and 15% over the past month.
