Foreign media exposure: someone sold 1.5 billion Facebook user data on the hacker forum, with a tota

Original title: foreign media exposure: someone sold 1.5 billion Facebook user data on the hacker forum, with a total value of $7.5 million!
[global network report] according to the Russian satellite news agency reported on the 5th, the personal data of up to 1.5 billion Facebook users were sold on a hacker forum, including the user's name, address, e-mail and telephone number.

It was reported that in late September this year, someone posted on the forum claiming that they had data on 1.5 billion Facebook users; At the same time, there are bids - a potential buyer offers $5000 for every 1 million user data. Russian satellite news agency said that this means that all user data held by the "seller" is worth $7.5 million.

The report continued that in a subsequent post, the "seller" also claimed to represent a large company committed to capturing Facebook data, and the company has been operating for at least four years and has more than 18000 customers. In addition, the "seller" also revealed that they were a "legitimate company".
According to satellite news agency, data capture refers to the process of using algorithms to extract public content and data from the website. If the so-called "seller" is credible, it means that no account has been stolen. However, the report mentioned that the practice of "sellers" selling these data on hacker forums has aroused people's concern.
According to Russia today (RT), Facebook and its instagram and other social media software suffered a large-scale failure on the 4th Beijing time. However, it is reported that the failure seems to have nothing to do with the sale of user data.