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267 Million Facebook Identities Sold: Things to Know and do

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The latest major data breach has leaked and sold the personal information of almost 267 million. This major data breach has taken place in such a time when most of the people all across the world are more dependent on channels of social media than ever before. The increased dependency of the people on social media channels is due to the ongoing health outbreak, which has kept most of the countries under lockdown. However, the issue of data security among users is prevalent much before the current health outbreak. The social media platforms have been facing criticism for their policies related to data privacy as the incidents of the data breach has increased a lot in these days. But the ongoing health outbreak has increased the dependency of the people on technology than ever before, which has made them vulnerable to several cyber-attacks and threats. Sources :-  267 Million Facebook Identities Sold  ,  2020-antivirus There are various instances of data theft and...