533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

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533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses.
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A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.

The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.

Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users' phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook's password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user's phone number.

A Facebook spokesperson told Insider that the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019.
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Gordon_R said:
Clickbait headline. The data was leaked in 2019. It has now been reposted online.
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Not really. It was 2019 data obtained supposedly early in 2020, and leaked recently. Point is if you deleted your Facebook account say end of last year when everyone did so, your data is still in this leaked data. Not much we can do now about it, but shows the ongoing repercussions from Facebook.
 
Gordon_R said:
Clickbait headline. The data was leaked in 2019. It has now been reposted online.
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People do not change their phone numbers and email addresses regularly, less so their names. At least the people around me don't. Not sure about your family / friends / connections?

So even if the data is more than a year old, and is NOW available for free, it still exposes (mostly) current details about a large group of people

So not clickbait, a very relevant news piece
 
ab-user said:
People do not change their phone numbers and email addresses regularly, less so their names. At least the people around me don't. Not sure about your family / friends / connections?

So even if the data is more than a year old, and is NOW available for free, it still exposes (mostly) current details about a large group of people

So not clickbait, a very relevant news piece
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Who cares? Everybody has that info anyway.
 
If you're still using Facebook, then you're doing the 21st century all wrong.
 
So their response is that it's old data so doesn't matter :rolleyes:
 
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