Online Data of 533 Million Facebooks Users Leaked

 

A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday revealed the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.

The exposed data includes private information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.

According to Insider, they reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users' phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. They also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook's password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user's phone number.

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

While a couple of years old, the leaked data could provide valuable information to cybercriminals who use people's personal information to impersonate them or scam them into handing over login credentials, according to Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, who first discovered the entire trough of leaked data online on Saturday.

"A database of that size containing the private information such as phone numbers of a lot of Facebook's users would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social engineering attacks [or] hacking attempts," Gal told Insider.

Gal first discovered the leaked data in January when a user in the same hacking forum advertised an automated bot that could provide phone numbers for hundreds of millions of Facebook users in exchange for a price. Motherboard reported on that bot's existence at the time and verified that the data was legitimate.

Now, the entire dataset has been posted on the hacking forum for free, making it widely available to anyone with rudimentary data skills.

This is not the first time that a huge number of Facebook users' phone numbers have been found exposed online. The vulnerability that was uncovered in 2019 allowed millions of people's phone numbers to be scraped from Facebook's servers in violation of its terms of service. Facebook said that vulnerability was patched in August 2019. 

Facebook previously vowed to crack down on mass data-scraping after Cambridge Analytica scraped the data of 80 million users in violation of Facebook's terms of service to target voters with political ads in the 2016 election.

Gal said that, from a security standpoint, there's not much Facebook can do to help users affected by the breach since their data is already out in the open — but he added that Facebook could notify users so they could remain vigilant for possible phishing schemes or fraud using their personal data.

"Individuals signing up to a reputable company like Facebook are trusting them with their data and Facebook [is] supposed to treat the data with utmost respect," Gal said. "Users having their personal information leaked is a huge breach of trust and should be handled accordingly."

 

 

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J&J wastes 1.5M Covid-19 Doses

Johnson & Johnson wastes 1.5 million doses of cod vaccine, investigation expected

Maryland (Web Desk - 1 April 2021) The American company Johnson & Johnson wasted 1.5 million doses of the corona vaccine due to non-compliance with the standards.

According to AFP news agency, the American company Johnson & Johnson wasted 1.5 million corona vaccines manufactured in a plant in the state of Maryland due to non-compliance with the standards. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is also expected to investigate the incident.

According to the company, more experts are being sent to the plant to improve the quality and safety of vaccines under expert supervision.

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The company added that the quality of the vaccine against the coronavirus was the company's top priority and that the discarded vaccine had not yet reached the final stages of its development.

It should be noted that all the corona vaccines used so far consist of two vaccines, while Johnson & Johnson's corona vaccine is the first vaccine to contain only one dose, meaning that one vaccine will be sufficient to prevent the deadly virus.

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WhatsApp exciting new features

 

The world's most popular messaging app, owned by Facebook, i.e. Whatsapp is working on launching exciting new features that users have been looking for since long. Recently, Whatsapp was found to be testing features like messenger room for iPhone users and animated stickers for both iOS and Android.

 

Here is the list of upcoming features that will surely enhance the user experience.

Dark mode on whatsapp web

Whatsapp dark mode will soon be available on both web and desktop as it is already available on phones.

Advance search mode

Recently Whatsapp feature trackers seen testing the Advance Search Mode. Once launched the users can easily search for videos, pictures, documents, and more on the search bar. 

Search the web

To curb the fake news forwarding Whatsapp will soon be rolling out the Search The Web feature. Whatsapp already placed a double rrow mark and limit on forwarding message to counter the fake news forwarding. 

Multi-device support

Using this feature users will be able to use their same whatsapp account on multiple devices. whatsapp team is also working on keeping the chat history for devices.

Expiring messages

This feature will enable the users to put time limit on chats, after time limit expired related chats will be disappeared and deleted.

Permanent mute switch

Currently, user can mute the group chats upto one-year, now by using thsi feature user can permanently mute the group.

50 members video conference

Another exciting feature they are going to introduce is increase the number of video call members up to 50 in a single video call.

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OnePlus 8T leak specs

 

OnePlus8T leaks are coming out as its flagship smartphone is going to be launched soon. It looks like it wouldn't be much different as compared to its predecessor OnePlus8. 

Display:

Though there are some minor upgrades like screen refresh rate has been boosted from 90Hz to 120Hz with 6.55inch AMOLED display flat screen.

Compute & Storage:

According to leaks it would have 8GB ROM, 128GM Storage and 865+ Snapdragon processing chip.

Cameras:

This flagship is going to have quad-camera on back by a 48 MP main sensor, alongside which is expected to 16 MP ultrawide, a 5 MP macro cam, and a 2 MP depth sensor

OS:

As expected, the 8T will run Android 11 out of the box, with OxygenOS 11. Expect to see the new phone (perhaps alongside a OnePlus 8T Pro) unveiled by the end of this month, or during the first week of October.

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Pakistan setps towards industrial hemp production

 

Don’t be surprised if you hear that country like Pakistan has now allowed and approved the hemp production which can fetch around $1bn as foreign exchange as said by the minister of science and technology.

A cabinet meeting chaired by, In a news conference in Islamabad, the minister Fawad Chaudhry told that Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a Cabinet meeting, approved a summary on Tuesday to allow legal production for the first time

“We want that this hemp market could give us around $1 billion in the next three years,” he said, adding the global market is worth around $25 billion.

Hemp seeds produce hemp oil, while the leaf is used in medicine and the stem can be turned into fibre to replace cotton in the textile industry.

S&T minster said the compound cannabidiol found in the hemp plant has an important role in medical science and therapies to alleviate severe and chronic pain affecting for instance cancer patients or those who have lost limbs. Across the world, companies have been seeking to tap into the market for medicinal cannabis.

The minister said the farming of hemp - a strain of the cannabis plant that contains little or no tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the substance that makes people high - will only be allowed under government control and the project should not be jumbled with poppy-growing.

 

 

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Fastest Living Human Calculator

Have you ever wondered that one can do mathematical calculations faster than a calculator? Yes, there were people who have done this like Ramanujan, Shakuntala Devi and many others. But recently there is another man, aged 20, Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash who can perform mathematical calculations 10x faster than a normal human being.

What's 869,463,853 times 73? It's 63,470,861,269 and it takes just 26 seconds for Bhanu, known in India as the "world's fastest human calculator," to work it out in his mind. Bhanu says he's able to make such complex calculations at breakneck speed through "structured practice."

"Let's say I am doing a multiplication of 8,763 multiplied by eight," he says. "I'll probably multiply: 8,000 by eight which is 64,000, 700 by eight which is 5,600, 60 by eight which is 480, three by eight is 24. And I add all of these. But this requires the human brain to remember all this.

"The methods which I use are very similar to general methods but certain things, basically it is brain optimization. I optimize my methods and make them better than before.

"At the end of the day whatever I call my methods, sometimes it just happens. There's a certain process, obviously, but since you have trained your brain, it just happens."

He became the first Asian to win gold at the Mental Calculation World Championship at the Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) in London on August 15.

Bhanu beat 29 opponents from 13 countries to take the gold in the competition and his speed was so extraordinary that judges made him jump through extra hoops and solve more calculations to confirm his accuracy.

At the age of 5, in 2005, Bhanu faced a tragic accident which resulted in head injury with 85 stitches in his skull. He spent a one whole in year on bed and that time he tried to keep his brain busy in solving puzzle and playing chess. Bhanu finished third in the sub-junior category at a state level speed arithmetic competition in Andhra Pradesh state. His performance brought his father to tears, Bhanu says. "It wasn't the medal, it was what led me there that moved my father," he says. Since then Bhanu secured many positions and records even leveling India’s legendary mathematician Shakuntala Devi.

In 2018, Bhanu founded Exploring Infinities, an educational organization that aims to make math cool, challenging, interesting and immersive, by tracking cognitive ability development through arithmetic games.

 

 

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Aliens built the Pyramids: Elon Musk

Elon Musk, the tech giant, Tesla and Space X CEO, recently tweeted “Aliens built the pyramids obv” has got great popularity and liked over half a million on twitter. It is still un-clear whether he was serious about this or not but Egypt government has taken it seriously. Over the weekend, the country's minister of international cooperation responded to a Musk tweet by offering him a trip to investigate the real history of the massive structures.

Rania A. Al Mashat, Egypt's minister of international cooperation, requested Musk to come to her country and discover the pyramids' history, including the tombs of the non-alien humans who built them. She tweeted “I follow your work with a lot of admiration. I invite you & Space X to explore the writings about how the pyramids were built and also to check out the tombs of the pyramid builders. Mr. Musk, we are waiting for you @elonmusk”.

Elon Musk later tweeted a link to a BBC article explaining how it delivers a 'sensible summary' for how the pyramids were built. He also agreed with a Twitter user who said building something like the ancient pyramids, is art.

While there is real evidence on how humans constructed the Egyptian pyramids, the mystery of why Elon Musk continues to tweet weird theories and conspiracies, still remains unsolved at the moment.

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