22, promised “scraped” data on “more than 1.5b Database of Facebook” consisting of users’ email addresses, locations, phone numbers, and other identifying information. The claim comes from an anonymous account on a forum that, according to Vice, obtained access to the database from a supposed company called “X2Emails.” The anonymous post, from Sept. Blackburn referenced is largely unverified, and possibly fake. “That’s its biggest data breach to date.” Blackburn, the subcommittee’s ranking Republican member, said. “News broke yesterday that the private data of over 1.5 billion - that’s right, 1.5 billion - Facebook users is being sold on a hacking forum,” Ms. In her opening remarks at a Senate subcommittee hearing with a Facebook whistle-blower on Tuesday, Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee made a stunning allegation.
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