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On April 3, 2021, Business Insider reported that the personal information of more than half a billion Facebook users was dumped onto a hacking forum: Business Insider reported that the exposed data was posted in a low-level hacking forum on April 3. The data breach was indirectly confirmed by Facebook, which said in an April 6 blog post that the problem initially occurred in 2019 and has since been fixed: We reached out to Facebook and asked whether the company would notify users affected by the breach, but didn't get a response in time for publication. We will update if we hear back. A Facebook spokesperson told Reuters, however, that it doesn't have plans to do so. In lieu of that, Facebook users can check the website Have I Been Pwned to see if their email addresses or phones have been part of that or other data breaches. As Wired reported, victims of the breaches included some notable figures, including Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and several high ranking government officials in the U.S. and Europe.
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