The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be skeptical about that figure. The hackers offered to sell access for 10 cents (8p) per account. However, their advert has since been taken offline.
The cyber-security company Digital Shadows examined the claim on behalf of the BBC and confirmed that more than 81,000 of the profiles posted online as a sample contained private messages.
Facebook is still denying that it was hacked and is sticking to their story that a browser extension was compromised and that’s how the user information was compromised.
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