Starting from the early morning of the 4th, US time, for nearly 7 hours, the entire network of Facebook and its Instagram was down, and even the intranet was unavailable. From the monitoring of DownDectors, Facebook is almost completely offline in Europe, America, and Oceania, and it is also inaccessible in Asia, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries.
After the accident, Facebook’s chief technology officer expressed sincere apologies for the downtime of the platform service. Facebook sent a team to the company’s data center to manually reset the service. The team is experiencing network problems. The team is working as fast as possible to debug as soon as possible. And recovery.
Subsequently, Russian Privacy Affairs reported that during the interruption of Facebook’s global network service, someone sold Facebook user data on a hacker forum, including the user’s name, address, email address, and phone number. The number exceeded 1.5 billion. Did not respond.
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From the sample point of view, the data this time should be true. Someone has crawled a series of personal data through data scraping tools. Such data can be used in phishing and account takeover attacks. The seller claims to be new data for 2021. In addition, some potential buyers claimed that they were scammed by the seller and did not receive any data after paying $5,000.
Whether the user data packaged and sold is related to Facebook’s network problem is not yet known, but in late September this year, someone posted claiming that they have 1.5 billion Facebook user data and a potential buyer bid for every million users data. 5000 US dollars, which means that all user data held by this person is worth 7.5 million US dollars.
The media pointed out that this is the largest in terms of the leakage of Facebook user data. Facebook had problems after about 23:34 Beijing time last night. Mainly from the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and other countries.