A vast amount of personal information of about 530 million people was leaked from Facebook, the world’s largest social network service. In Korea, personal information of 120,000 people is expected to have been leaked in this accident. The foreign press has disclosed a method to check whether a user’s personal information has been leaked after Facebook’s personal information leakage accident.
According to an overseas tech media outlet, the following are ways for Facebook users to know whether personal information has been leaked.
First, a site that lets you know whether your personal informationhaveibeenpwned.com). This site is a place where you can easily find out whether personal information has been leaked through e-mail.
The method is also simple. Just enter your email and click’pwned’. If personal information is leaked, a warning window prompting you to perform 2-step verification after changing the password is displayed. After that, you can scroll through the page to check various leaks, including leaked emails. Officials in the IT industry are proposing to change Facebook’s password immediately.
The reason experts asked me to suggest whether my personal information was leaked is because a huge amount of personal information was leaked in this accident. According to foreign economic media outlets, etc., the personal information of 533 million Facebook users in 106 countries was actually disclosed as’free’.
Leaked details include △name △place of residence △birthday △history (educational and career) △e-mail address. It is known that sensitive personal information was intact posted on an Internet forum (a site created for the purpose of sharing data or information on the web).
Alan Galle, founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Israeli cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, said via Twitter that the information appears to have been shared among hackers since January. It is a fee to download from the forum where the personal information of Facebook users is posted, Gal CTO explained.
According to Gal CTO’s explanation, personal information of about 120,000 Korean users was also leaked. In the case of leakage, the largest number of users in the US was 32.3 million. Leakage damage occurred in France (1984 million), Britain (1.52 million), and Germany (6.4 million), and personal information of 670,000 and 420,000 people were leaked from China and Japan, respectively. It is known that the personal information of 127,744 people in Korea has been leaked.
As sensitive personal information has been leaked in Korea, it is necessary to strengthen security such as checking whether it has been leaked and changing passwords.
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