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

Post by Phenomenit » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 4:58 PM UTC

OminousWeapons wrote: post #59

rikkipitt wrote: post #5

I’ve been getting a lot of automated/unsolicited calls recently. Begs the question if this might be the source of my woes. Is there a trustworthy phone number version of https://haveibeenpwned.com ?

Not really an answer to your question, but one partial solution to the problem of having your number leaked or sold is to setup a service like Twilio to act like a phone proxy. You can have Twilio forward calls it receives on a different number ("spam number") to your actual phone number ("real number"). You provide spam number to anyone who isn't a business or personal contact. Every few months, you rotate spam numb…

Post by somethingwitty1 » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #67

timdaub wrote: post #33

Great, and while you can get sued into oblivion for downloading a Metallica album, all our personal data is downloadable from a public website for 3€. Like for real, it took me 2mins to find the leak myself...

At this point i don't see why only facebook and the thieves should have access to this data. If the data is public it loses its value

Post by tnolet » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

Post by toxik » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

egwor wrote: post #73

tpush wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatsapp doesn't share phone book data with Facebook.

That doesn't seem to be correct, although what does 'phone numbers' mean in this context? Quote: "WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, does share some limited data with Facebook, including phone numbers. However, the firm has reassured users that messages will always be protected by end-t0-end encryption, which means neither WhatsApp or Facebook can see these private conversations" Source: https://www.fo…

Post by OminousWeapons » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

Phenomenit wrote: post #81

OminousWeapons wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really an answer to your question, but one partial solution to the problem of having your number leaked or sold is to setup a service like Twilio to act like a phone proxy. You can have Twilio forward calls it receives on a different number ("spam number") to your actual phone number ("real number"). You provide spam number to anyone who isn't a business or personal contact. Every few months, you rotate spam numb…

Is this available to people outside of the US as well and is there a guide for setting this up? Last time I used twilio for a basic sms gateway there was a lot of clicking and typing.