Data of 533mn Facebook users being sold via Telegram bot

In a fresh trouble for Facebook, phone numbers of 533 million users are currently being sold via a bot on encr ypted messaging platform Telegram, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched by the social network in 2019.According to a report in Motherboard, the person selling the database full of Facebook users’ phone numbers (it’s $20 per number) lets customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot.Although data is a bit old but it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose phone numbers may be exposed. The bot claims to contain information on Facebook users from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and 15 other countries.