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Bot Lets Hackers Easily Look Up Facebook Users' Phone Numbers

The person selling access to the service claims it has data on 500 million Facebook users.
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A user of a low-level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers look up those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot.