Facebook is subject to another breach with a tool that a researcher has demonstrated to show the vulnerabilities of social media in gathering e-mail addresses and links to millions of accounts. The social media has been shown its vulnerability in the past months, especially as leaks and breaches that threaten user safety has appeared.
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The social media platform has been one of the largest and most used worldwide, but it does not show itself to be one of the safest as back-to-back reports of its vulnerabilities have been proven time and again. The recent data hack within the social media has the company scrambling, especially as there were insider reports that Facebook does not plan on notifying affected users.
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Facebook Email Breach by Researcher Demo
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According to Ars Technica, a researcher has forwarded a video on how a tool called "Facebook Email Search 1.0" works to get different email addresses and links it to millions of user accounts online. The tool and the researcher said that it can gather and discover up to 5 million user accounts per day, and effectively cover almost everyone on the platform.
The researcher asked to remain anonymous but has provided an exclusive video and transcript to Ars, asking for the public to remain in private and only use it for dissemination processes. Recently, the Facebook hack has resulted in 500 million users having their private information and other details taken from them without their knowledge.
Facebook Vulnerabilities
Facebook is a widespread and massively used social media worldwide, meaning that it has a ton of areas that are missed by moderators and the social media's security team in keeping the peace and safety. Facebook has always assured users of the different security measures it takes to keep the platform safe and usable by the public.
Facebook's Response?
Recently, Facebook talked about "Scraping" and how the company solves those problems to ensure the safety and convenience of everyone using the platform. The company has also addressed several problems regarding the spread of fake news and other phishing campaigns which endangers the users from everyday encounters in the social network.
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Written by Isaiah A.
