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

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

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Post by jrnichols »

antibland wrote: post #107

I’m curious about the pool of Facebook users who seldom use the product, retaining it solely for groups and to keep in touch with family. Will this event loosen that final brick and drive these users to delete their accounts?

in my case, no, because I still need to occasionally keep in touch with those people.

I use Facebook a LOT less nowadays though. Here's what I do:

- removed all of the apps from my mobile devices. - only check it on VPN, with Firefox, using Facebook Containers. - log out each time and do not use the "save this browser" feature. - unlock origin & pihole are active on the VPN too.

I have managed to completely ruin its targeted ads for me. It's been an amusing experiment.

I still use it less because it is a HUGE memory & resource hog and eventually makes my browser window slow to a crawl.

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

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Post by HNfriend234 »

jrnichols wrote: post #378
tyingq wrote: post #213

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Tried it, you're right. Got 6 of my past addresses, 9 past phone numbers, 8 relatives, all correct. Some incorrect info, but not much as a percentage. If you reverse search the PO Box address listed on the site contact page, you'll find an Amateur Radio license listed to a person that is probably the owner of the site, based on his past experience.

I am amazed and horrified at the fact data brokers like that are legal. and the hoops to which you must leap in order to get your information out of them, even with california privacy laws.

Yup. That's why I pretty much deleted all my social media with my real first name, last name etc.

Imagine getting into a facebook argument with someone and that person becomes so emotionally enraged with what you said that they go to your house.

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

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Post by drusepth »

mbirth wrote: post #166
Exuma wrote: post #98

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Where did you get the data leak, I want to check too.

From the initial tweet the source is this: https://raidforums.com/Thread-SELLING-Free-FaceBook-533M-rec... However, the comments in that forum suggest that it's not "free" and/or not there.

OT: Failed their hCaptcha probably 10-15 times before I gave up and just closed the tab. Hadn't seen it in the wild yet; I'm glad it's not pervasive (yet).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dan-robertson wrote: post #340
varispeed wrote: post #319

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You can't compare that at all! They leaked IDs and from that you can go to user profile and learn more about them. You cannot do that from a phone company leak.

Phone companies didn’t leak phone numbers in the conventional sense of the word. I used it to try to draw a comparison. Phone numbers used to be printed in big books and you could usually look someone’s phone number up if you knew their name and rough location. That is, phone numbers were not considered to be particularly private information at all. I think the comments I most agree with talk about the different secu…

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

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Post by amluto »

progval wrote: post #126
amluto wrote: post #118

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What I mean is: Facebook should remove that API entirely. Apps do not need a way to look up a phone number in Facebook’s database. The “find my friends using this app” feature does not require this capability.

What you are proposing is that third-party apps should ask Facebook's app to find the friends, right? But Facebook's app needs to access Facebook's database somehow; and anyone can impersonate Facebook's app and query that database too.

Facebook’s phone app does not need to access the database. The whole thing could be implemented on the backend.

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

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Post by kaminar »

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…

How is it that NOBODY mentions suing FB for this, the single largest data breach/leak in history? Are they to be let off with zero accountability? Nerds and geeks of ycombinator, pls let us know how you feel.

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

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Post by elorant »

happyhardcore wrote: post #296
OkGoDoIt wrote: post #290

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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...

the telegram has a text file with links to links by country, I've just stuck that at https://pastebin.com/3SvG1FJ0

Someone needs to torrent all these files.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

rikkipitt wrote: post #14
spicyramen wrote: post #7

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Same here, i started recieving both calls and SMS which the last i find more annoying. I do use Android and these ones haven't been able to be detected as spam

I’m on iOS and don’t think there’s a way of blocking unsolicited calls until after the fact... I hope to be proven wrong though! The odd thing is, the calls often come through having a caller ID very similar to my own number.

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

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Post by techrat »

rikkipitt wrote: post #14
spicyramen wrote: post #7

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Same here, i started recieving both calls and SMS which the last i find more annoying. I do use Android and these ones haven't been able to be detected as spam

I’m on iOS and don’t think there’s a way of blocking unsolicited calls until after the fact... I hope to be proven wrong though! The odd thing is, the calls often come through having a caller ID very similar to my own number.

Best thing I ever did for myself was to get a Google Voice number in an area code I've never lived in.

A lot of these fake calls rely on people assuming "local number = neighbor" kind of mentality which rarely comes into play these days as we're much more mobile than we used to be. Plus area code splits, separate area codes for cell vs landline services becoming increasingly common.

If my GV number were: AAA-BBB-CCCC

And my actual home area code is DDD-EEE-FFFF

Any and all numbers from AAA-BBB-xxxx can be ignored.

I never answer calls that come in on my cell carrier provided number, so that eliminates that issue. Silent ring, no forward to voicemail.

Anything left, about 95% of the time, tends to be legit.

With regional calling being a thing of the past and most cell plans being unlimited text and talk, it makes very little sense to keep a local number. Especially now as it's SOP for roboscammers to fake Caller ID and try to match the first 6 of your 10 digits.

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

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Post by edoceo »

kaminar wrote: post #396
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…

How is it that NOBODY mentions suing FB for this, the single largest data breach/leak in history? Are they to be let off with zero accountability? Nerds and geeks of ycombinator, pls let us know how you feel.

Couldadone w/o the name calling. Generally frowned upon, site guidelines and all
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