Mark Zuckerberg’s Data Was Leaked In The Latest Facebook Data Leak

Image: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

You may have heard the disturbing news this weekend that more than 500 million Facebook users had their personal information leaked in a Facebook data breach, with the information posted online to a hacker site. Information leaked and posted included users’ name, location, birthday, email, phone number, and relationship status.

Regarding the #FacebookLeak, of the 533M people in the leak – the irony is that Mark Zuckerberg is regrettably included in the leak as well.

If journalists are struggling to get a statement from @facebook, maybe just give him a call, from the tel in the leak? 📞😂@GazTheJourno pic.twitter.com/lrqlwzFMjU

— Dave Walker (@Daviey) April 3, 2021

But you know what else was posted? Mark Zuckerberg’s name, location, birthday, email, phone number, and relationship status.

Good call. He is. pic.twitter.com/X4bn0Xh96P

— Dave Walker (@Daviey) April 4, 2021

“In early 2020 a vulnerability that enabled seeing the phone number linked to every Facebook account was exploited, creating a database containing the information 533m users across all countries,” engineer Alon Gal wrote on Twitter. “It was severely under-reported and today the database became much more worrisome.”

All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked.

I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8

— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021

“Few days ago a user created a Telegram bot allowing users to query the database for a low fee, enabling people to find the phone numbers linked to a very large portion of Facebook accounts,” he added. “This obviously has a huge impact on privacy.”

It’s easy to become a bit immune to Facebook scandals – there’s so many of them! – but Facebook’s comms admitting they knew of this latest breach – of 533 million people – almost 2 years ago *but did not inform users* is pretty breathtaking https://t.co/eLBqE1a3cK

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 5, 2021

According to CNN Business, you can see if your data was leaked in this breach by visiting the website HaveIBeenPwned.com.