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Elvenar: unleash the power of the elves Ralf Schumacher: "That means that from" Hackers are said to have stolen 1.2 billion data from Facebook users in the Darknet By T-Online, MHO 22.05.2025 Reading time: 2 min. Data leak on Facebook: The company does not deny the incident.(Source: Nurphoto/Imago-Images pictures) Reading reading 0:00 0:00 News Share Article A hacker allegedly offers 1.2 billion Facebook user data in the Darknet.The incident again raises questions about Meta's security - you should know that. A hacker claims to have captured 1.2 billion data records from Facebook users.As the IT security portal "Cybernews" reports, the attacker claims to have obtained the information from the abuse of a programming interface (API) from Meta. The perpetrator, who calls himself "Bytebreaker", has therefore published the data records in a well-known Leak Forum in the Darknet.According to him, it is new material that does not come from previous data leaks.The stolen information includes user IDS, names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth data, genders and location information from those affected. Experts confirm authenticity The "Cybernews" team examined a sample of 100,000 Facebook profiles that the hacker had made available as free evidence of the authenticity of his claims.The experts then confirmed the authenticity of these sample data.However, a complete review of the complete 1.2 billion data records is pending. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, commented on the allegations with a short statement: "This is not a new claim. We disclosed this years ago and took steps ago to prevent similar incidents since then."The company referred to a four -year -old blog post on data protection, but did not explicitly deny the current allegations. User more susceptible to phishing and identity theft Cyber ​​security experts regularly warn of the possible consequences of data leaks.In this way, users can become more susceptible to phishing attacks and identity theft through the published information.Criminals often buy such data records and also use them for telephone fraud. "Cybernews" emphasizes that this incident is a recurring security problem.Programming interfaces that were originally developed for better networking of services are increasingly being misused by cyber criminals in order to get large amounts of data.If the hacker's claims prove true, this would be the largest Facebook hack to date.