1.5 Billion Facebook User Data Is Sold? How Do Ordinary People Get Out of “Trumen’s World”

According to the British “Guardian” report, at around 11:45 am Eastern time on October 4th, the main social service of the American Internet social giant Facebook Facebook has been interrupted in many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the Russian Satellite Network, during the interruption of Facebook’s global network service, it is said that more than 1.5 billion Facebook users’ data was sold on hacker forums.

On the morning of October 5th, Facebook said that the system has now resumed service and we are working hard to make it fully resume normal operation. The root cause of this downtime is incorrect configuration changes. There is no evidence that user data has been leaked due to the downtime. .

In fact, this is not the first time that Facebook has been exposed to leaking user information. In April this year, according to the news website Business Insider (Business Insider) reported that a low-level hacker forum exposed the personal data of 533 million Facebook users on the 3rd. These users involved 106 countries, and the leaked information included Facebook ID, user’s full name, location, birthday, personal profile, and email address.