Threat actor selling 1.2 billion Facebook records, but details don’t add up

A threat actor using the alias “ByteBreaker” is claiming to have abused the Facebook API and scraped 1.2 billion account details, which are now being sold on a data breach forum.

ByteBreaker joined the forum where they are selling the data in the first week of May 2025.

On May 3, they initially posted another Facebook database for sale, claiming it contained 780 million records and also featured fresh 2025 data. 

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