Mark Zuckerberg has certainly not been sleeping well in recent days. More than 500 million users, including over 1 million Czechs, were affected by the recent disclosure of data stolen by cybercriminals from his Facebookin 2019.
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Although this is a relatively old event and Facebook already fixed the vulnerability at that time, the data itself has only now been leaked to the internet and poses a significant threat to user security. Among the published data are also phone numbers that cybercriminals can use to steal SIM swapping, an attack in which they redirect two-factor authentication security codes used to verify identity when logging into email to their own devices. This gives the thieves access to the victim's email and can then take control of the user's other online accounts and their entire digital identity.
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To the people who had theirs in 2019 facebookemail account linked to a phone number is recommended by security experts led by Avast change the settings so that they can only log in to the account using an authenticator provided by e.g. Microsoft or GoogleThese users may also face more frequent phishing attacks, so they should be more cautious about the SMS messages they receive. However, while following all security guidelines, everyone should be able to avoid data breaches. Facebookto "survive" without much difficulty.
