Security News > 2024 > February > 200,000 Facebook Marketplace user records leaked on hacking forum
A threat actor leaked 200,000 records on a hacker forum, claiming they contained the mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and other personal information of Facebook Marketplace users.
IntelBroker claims this partial Facebook Marketplace database was stolen by someone using the 'algoatson' Discord handle after hacking the systems of a Meta contractor.
The leaked database contains a wide variety of personally identifiable information, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, Facebook IDs, and Facebook profile information.
In November 2022, Meta was hit with a €265 million fine for failing to protect Facebook users' personal information from scrapers after data linked to more than 533 million Facebook accounts was leaked on a hacker forum in April 2021.
533,313,128 Facebook users had their data leaked, with the exposed information including their mobile numbers, Facebook IDs, names, genders, locations, relationship statuses, occupations, dates of birth, and email addresses.
Almost every Facebook user record leaked in April 2021 included the users' mobile phone numbers, Facebook IDs, and names, according to samples of the Facebook data seen by BleepingComputer at the time.