Private messages from 81,000 Facebook accounts for sale

Facebook seems subscribed to scandals with its privacy. Since it has now been revealed that the private messages of 81, 000 accounts on the social network have been put up for sale. It is about 120 million private messages, in which there are all kinds of information about the users who use these accounts on the popular web or app.

Private messages from 81, 000 Facebook accounts for sale

For months that the social network has been in the spotlight after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, plus the failure that was discovered this summer in it. So the problems accumulate for it.

New security problem on Facebook

The BBC has been commissioned to reveal this new problem on Facebook. From the British media they affirm that the security of the social network as such has not been compromised. It seems that the origin of the data theft would have its origin in Russia, since they have been able to contact those responsible for the hack. The question is whether they will be able to sell this user data.

The attackers would have gained access to the data using the malicious extension technique, with malware, in the user's browser. A technique that is used quite frequently in this type of attack. Most of the affected accounts are located in Russia and Ukraine, but it is not ruled out that there are more worldwide.

We will see what happens, but again it becomes clear that security on Facebook has a lot to improve, because it already happens quite frequently that users' data is stolen on the social network.

BBC source