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

Post by prox » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

i_have_an_idea wrote: post #260

There's not much to see here. Someone scraped some public profiles. Someone then brute forced a poorly implemented "look up by phone number" feature. They linked the two datasets on the unique facebook user id. Leaking data that is or was in the public domain is not much of a leak. The only noteworthy thing would be the leak of the non-public phone number, however that vulnerability has been widely known since 2019 (…

Post by tito » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 9:14 PM UTC

zerof1l wrote: post #130

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #16

Would like to know if non Facebook users are included because Facebook has non Facebook user's phone numbers due to the fact that Whatsapp uploads the entire phonebook to Whatsapp. That means Facebook is likely to know your phone number although you don't use Facebook or Whatsapp.

I have WhatsApp and you can deny access to your phonebook. Everything works just fine

Post by hosteur » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 9:16 PM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #290

malaya_zemlya wrote: post #110

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https://t.me/freedomf0x/12553 I haven't checked the content myself, but this tg channel is usually legit

Thanks. I'm just getting a "Please open Telegram to view this post from @freedomf0x" message. Any way to access this without signing up for Telegram? The irony of giving my personal info to another 3rd party just to check if my personal info was leaked by a different party is too much...

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 9:19 PM UTC

tpush wrote: post #120

superjan wrote: post #68

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Hi, how do you know? It is of personal interest to me as I don’t use FB but do use WhatsApp. It may also reduce the piling of downvoters.

Here's the source: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/whatsapp-ceo-o... Quote: "Cathcart: It’s true that we do have some information about how people use WhatsApp and that we do know, for example, the device ID. We collect this only to secure our services and protect from attacks. When you use WhatsApp and allow access to your phone book, we only see the phone numbers, not the name. DER SPIEGEL: Do you sha…

Post by bredren » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

banana_giraffe wrote: post #272

Looking at the leak others have pointed to, there are a surprising number of people working in a particular imaginary company: sqlite> select company, count(*) as c from usa where length(company) > 0 group by company order by c desc limit 10; company c ---------------------------------------- ---------- Self-Employed 459119 Facebook 181013 Retired 71210 The Krusty Krab 61550 Hollister Co. 42304 U.S. Army 39682 Stay-a…