Alert: Personal Data of 267 million Facebook users leaked online facebook has a history of data scandal and privacy issues. The latest report suggests that data of 267 million users is available on the internet. The leaked data contains user IDs, names, and phone numbers of Facebook users. The hack was first discovered by the Comparitech security researcher Bob Diachenko. He spotted the Facebook repository that has been exposed for over two weeks. While the company has taken care of the security, the data has appeared on various hacker forums so far. The data was available in Elasticsearch, a distributed full-text each engine, since the first week of December. Over 267 million records didn't include passwords or highly sensitive information. But the data includes full name, time-stamp, phone numbers, and Facebook IDs which is good enough for cyber-criminals to find out your Facebook profile and gather intelligence for phishing attacks. The database is ideal to conduct SMS-ba