The Security Box, podcast 38: we've got Facebook in the spotlight, news, notes and more

Welcome to the Security box, podcast 38. This week, we had planned to go back to DKIM and have a discussion on it, but we aren't going to do that. Why? It looks like news has gotten about Facebooks's 2019 breach and 535 million people whose information may now be out there on the free Internet as well as it already being sold to the dark web when the initial breach occurred. We'll have news, notes and more as well as your thoughts and comments to boot. Enjoy the program! <h4> Topic: Has Facebook done it again? </h4> Michael in Tennessee sent me an article from Phone Scoop, as well as me seeing the article we'll be taking from, which came from Cyberscoop. It looks like Facebook is really paying for a 2019 breach in which 500 plus million people's information including phone number were exposed somehow and later patched by Facebook. <blockquote> The data, which comes from people from over 100 countries, includes users’ phone numbers, email addresses, full names, birthdates and location, among other identifiers, according to Insider, which first "reported the news." </blockquote> The leak, was first reported by Motherboard, according to the article. The only thing that I'm unclear on is the section that talks about the fact that the leak was reported by Motherboard in January. The information was made available by paying a Telegram bot a couple of bucks for the details according to the article. According to the article, Facebook removed the ability of searching people by telephone number after the breach. Facebook will be probed by Ireland, and its unclear if the Unnited States will follow suit by the FTC. The article goes on on what the actors may do with the information now that the information has been made available for free. The website "have I been poned" has been updated by Mr. Troy Hunt with the information that was made available by the breach. For more information and to read the full article, <a href="https://www.cyberscoop.com/533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-fraud-cybercrime/">533 mill