A massive 1.2 billion user record database was scraped from the Meta-owned Facebook by abusing one of the social media platform‘s application programming interfaces (APIs), attackers claim. Meanwhile, Meta did not deny the scrape taking place.

The humongous database was posted on a popular data leak forum, with attackers claiming that the information is not a compilation of old records, but an entirely new dataset. If confirmed, the scrape could be one of the largest to come from Facebook.

Facebook’s parent company Meta responded to Cybernews with a short note and a link to a four year old newsroom post titled “How we combat scraping.”