Change Your Password: 419 Million Facebook Users’ Accounts, Phone Numbers Found on Database

Change Your Password: 419 Million Facebook Users’ Accounts, Phone Numbers Found on Database
Small toy figures are seen in front of Facebook logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A server found without a password had some 400 million database records of Facebook users in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, it was reported.

Security researcher Sanyam Jain discovered the database, finding each had a unique Facebook ID and phone number for the account. There were 133 million records from U.S. users, 18 million U.K. users, and 50 million  Vietnamese users.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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