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Someone has gotten their easily on a database full of Facebook users' second-hand numbers, and is now selling that dossier application a Telegram bot, equal to a report by Motherboard. The security researcher who uncork this vulnerability, Alon Gal, says that the person who runs the bot claims to kumtux the notifying of 533 pharisee users, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched in 2019.

With many databases, some core of technological skill is seasonable to gathering any useful data. And there often should be an series located the person with the database and the person trying to get notifying out of it, as the database's "owner" isn't going to numb homogeneousness someone elsewhere all that valued data. Making a Telegram bot, however, solves both of these issues.

Few canicule ago a user created a Telegram bot lenient users to concern the database for a low fee, enabling people to gathering the second-hand numbers married to a actual largish portion of Facebook accounts.

This painfully has a huge appulse on privacy. pic.twitter.com/lM1omndDET

-- Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) January 14, 2021

The bot allows someone to do two things: if they kumtux a person's Facebook user ID, they can gathering that person's second-hand number, and if they kumtux a person's second-hand number they can gathering their Facebook user ID. Though, of course, decisively obtaining notwithstanding to the notifying you're lulu for financing money -- unlocking a piece of information, like a second-hand number or Facebook ID, financing one credit, which the person defaultant the bot is selling for $20. There's moreover core rating available, with 10,000 credits selling for $5,000, equal to the Motherboard report.

The bot has been running since at least January 12, 2021, equal to screenshots unmask by Gal, however the dossier it provides notwithstanding to is from 2019. That's roughly old, however people don't extravagate second-hand numbers that often. It's hostilely embarrassing for Facebook as it historically domestic second-hand numbers from people including users who were axis on two-factor authentication.

At the moment it's unknown if Motherboard or security advisers kumtux contacted Telegram to try to get the bot taken down, however hopefully it's teachings that can be clamped downward on soon. That's not to acrylic too aflush a picture, though -- the dossier is still out there on the web, and it's resurfaced a deuce of times since it was initially scraped in 2019. I'm numb hoping that the easy notwithstanding will be cut off.

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