A user of one of the hacker forums published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free. The freely redistributable database includes the personal information of more than 533 million Facebook users. These include phone numbers, IDs, full names, locations, dates of birth, and sometimes email addresses. Previously, user numbers from this database were sold through a bot.
The database contains data from 106 countries; including 32 million from the United States, 11 million from the UK and 6 million from India. Business Insider verified the correctness of several verified entries by matching the phone numbers of famous Facebook users with identifiers from the database. Reporters also verified that the email addresses used to reset Facebook’s password were correct; this functionality can also be used to partially reveal a user’s phone number.