Wave of phishing emails feared after massive Facebook leak uncovered


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  • Saturday, 10 Apr 2021

A massive data leak of email addresses and phone numbers from Facebook will make it easier for email scammers to pretend to be someone you know. — dpa

Once again, the personal information of hundreds of millions of Facebook has surfaced online, following a new data leak that threatens to unleash a wave of sophisticated email scams relying on

these stolen contact names.

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