16th April 2021, Kathmandu
The news of the Facebook data leak that compromised the phone numbers and email IDs of over 500 million users has not even died yet and now there is another report claiming that apart from the 533 million phone numbers, there is another database of Facebook-leaked phone numbers online.
This separate data leak has been made possible with the help of a Telegram tool, claims a report by Vice, based on the findings of cybersecurity firm Motherboard.
The Telegram tool, which reportedly appears as a bot on Telegram, asks customers to pay to find a certain phone number connected with a Facebook account that liked a specific page.
The motherboard claims that it has verified the tool and is also positive that the phone numbers included in this newly-found dataset are not included in the recent 500 million users’ dataset.
