Claims Facebook was hacked surface online after 1.5bn users' data ‘sold on web’

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Claims Facebook was hacked surface online after 1.5bn users' data ‘sold on web’
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Data privacy experts claim a member of a hackers' forum boasted of possessing sensitive Facebook user data, with the allegations surfacing amid a global outage which was unrelated

Claims that Facebook was hacked surfaced online amid allegations the personal data of 1.5 billion users appeared for sale on a forum.

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