Facebook, the most used social media website in the world, has once again become a security risk for internet users and the mobile phone numbers of 41 million people linked to the website have been leaked.
According to a TechCrunch website report, 13 million of the users who have leaked phone numbers to Facebook users are from the United States, 10 million to the UK and more than 50 million to Vietnam.
According to the report, the affected data was taken offline after the problem was identified.
The leaked data is what Facebook collected through a tool and was disbanded a year ago due to the fall of the 'Cambridge Analytica' company. Personal data were submitted without permission.
It was revealed through a blog written in April 2019 that Facebook users can find anyone by phone number.
Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Skrفرffer, says that the stylized elements also used this feature to find people through phone numbers and email and retrieve their personal data.
He added that we believe that this feature will have the personal data of a large number of users using Facebook, so we are now turning off this feature.
Facebook spokesperson quoted it as saying that it is old data that was leaked a year ago before the feature change, that the data has been protected and we have no evidence that Facebook users A compromise has been made regarding the data.
A social media web spokeswoman says investigations into the data leak have also been launched.
