Researchers say that the hackers sold Facebook's personal data to Facebook's 26.1 million users for just 500 euros (about 41 thousand 500 rupees).

Hackers sold data of 26 million Facebook users for just 41,000

San Francisco (organization): Researchers state programmers offered Facebook's own information to Facebook's 26.1 million clients for only 500 euros (around 41 thousand 500 rupees). As indicated by digital hazard evaluation stage 'Sible', the information that has been sold incorporates the client's email address, Facebook ID, date of birth and telephone number. In any case, the bit of leeway is that no client's secret phrase is incorporated.

The deal was driven by Siebel analysts, who had the option to download and check the information. "Right now, we don't have the foggiest idea how the information was spilled," he said. The information may host been spilled through a third gathering API (application programming interface). Since the information contains client delicate subtleties, cybercriminals can utilize it for completing or spamming.

In December a year ago, there were reports that a database of in excess of 267 million Facebook clients was accessible on the web. As indicated by a blog entry on a site, the database could be downloaded from an online programmer gathering. At the point when this data came out, a Facebook representative stated, "We are seeing this issue, yet it appears that somebody has gotten this data before the protection setting is changed.

“Experts have prompted Facebook clients to be cautious with superfluous messages while reinforcing their security settings in the profile. Facebook is as of now confronting investigation over Cambridge Analytica, the UK's political counseling firm, for getting to 8.7 million clients' information.The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined the media organization 5 billion (roughly Rs 40,000 crore) for abusing information security.

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