The personal details of more than 500 million Facebook users have now beenreleased online after being hacked, including FB’s owner Mark Zuckerberg’sphone number.

According to details, the data is available for free online, which onceagain gives an idea of ​​how much details Facebook collects about users.

Various particulars of 533 million Facebook users such as phone numbers,Facebook IDs, full names, locations, date of birth, bio and some emailaddresses are now available on a website.

Confirming the leak of user data, “This is old data that was previouslyreported on in 2019,” a Facebook spokesperson wrote in a statement. “Wefound and fixed this issue in August 2019.”

Earlier, in August 2019, the company had fixed a bug in its server thatallowed hackers to get the details.

The database, which was first leaked in 2019, was initially being sold oninstant messaging platform Telegram for a fee of $20 per search. Facebookhad then said that it had patched the vulnerability that has caused theleak. But, in June 2020, and, then in January 2021, the same database wasleaked again. The vulnerability was the same: it allowed users to searchfor a person’s number.

The data was discovered on April 3, 2021, by Alon Gal, chief technologyofficer at cybersecurity intelligence company Hudson Rock.

Alon Gal, the co-founder and chief technical officer of cybersecurity firmHudson Rock was the first to flag this matter.

In a fresh Twitter post, Gal shared the details of the leaked database,which contained leaked information of the users and said that if someonehad a Facebook account, it was extremely likely that the said details hadbeen leaked.

According to the database of the latest alleged leak, details of as many as0.55 million users from Afghanistan, 1.2 million from Australia, 3.8million from Bangladesh, 8 million from Brazil, and 6.1 million from Indiahad been put up for free on several forums.

He said in a tweet that such a large database is often not immediatelyshared on a great scale because hackers want to make money on a long-termbasis.

On the other hand, a report said that the phone number of Facebook founderMark Zuckerberg is also part of this detail. It is also claimed that MarkZuckerberg’s details including name, location, marriage details, date ofbirth and Facebook user ID have all been leaked.