Telegram Bot used to Sells Facebook User’s Phone Number

As per a report from Motherboard, database of Facebook users' phone numbers is being sold by using a Telegram bot.

The starting price is one credit per number, which is the equivalent of $20. Reportedly, 533 million Facebook users' numbers are available, and even though Facebook fixed the issue back in 2019, the information is clearly still there to be taken advantage of.

The data breach was found by Alon Gal, who told  Motherboard "It is very worrying to see a database of that size being sold in cybercrime communities, it harms our privacy severely and will certainly be used for smishing and other fraudulent activities by bad Using a Telegram bot enables a hacker to do two things in this scenario, they can find someone's phone number if they have that person's Facebook user ID, alternatively, if they have the person's Facebook user ID they can then find their phone number.