What worries most technology companies and crypto companies is the security concern and fraudulent operations.

The latest Facebook leak made headlines lately.

According to a report by Motherboard, there is a new Telegram bot capable of identifying the phone number of anyone who has liked a particular Facebook page.

Thus, if you have liked a cryptocurrency-related social page, scammers will likely use your personal information for social engineering attacks or SIM swaps in order to access a cryptocurrency wallet.

Hudson Rock Technical Director Alon Gal stated that it is possible to sell user information as a commercial product, and added:

For example, the information of those who join the Facebook group “Bitcoin UK” can be extracted and converted into a list of readable phone numbers to be sold as potential customers to companies, which is a very profitable business.

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The Telegram bot provides a spreadsheet that includes the user’s full name and gender as well as the phone number.

The cost of requesting data depends on the popularity of the target page.

Pages with less than 100 likes give their data for free from the bot.

Should you refrain from liking crypto pages on Facebook?

Answer: No.

according to “Motherboard“The Telegram bot is unable to leak information about new likes, due to Facebook’s deterrent measures and the maintenance and closing of the previous vulnerability.

Tough week on Facebook:

On April 3, a database containing 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a popular hacking forum.

The data includes email addresses, phone numbers, and other sensitive information.

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