267 Million Facebook Users IDs, Names And Phone Numbers Exposed Online

Personal information belonging to more than 267 million Facebook users has been exposed in an unsecured database on the dark web, it has emerged.  

The Facebook IDs, phone numbers and full names of 267,140,436 users, most residing in the US, were discovered in the database by cybersecurity firm Comparitech and researcher Bob Diachenko, according to a report published Thursday.  

The report warned that people identified in the database could be targeted by spam messages or phishing schemes.