115,000 Maltese people got data hacked through Facebook leak
Technology
A Business Insider report claims that 533 million Facebook users had their personal data and phone numbers leaked online bya low level hacking forum user. Times of Malta identified 115,366 of these as being Maltese, meaning that more than a fifth of the island’s population fell prey to this leak. The information was uploaded for free on the hacker’s forum.
The Business Insider report states that the personal data leaked included phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates and biographies. Malta was among the worst affected in the EU, at 23% of the population. Other EU countries also suffered, with Italy at 59%, Netherlands at 31% and France at 29% among others.
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