What a great service to gather phone numbers even from those who haven't been pawned!
The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try creating a new facebook account today. The site won't let you do that without verifying a phone number. The difficulty level increases if you try doing so behind a vpn. Same goes for other SM sites like Twitter.
I don't think that's true. I created a Facebook account a few weeks ago and a Twitter account just yesterday, both without needing a phone number.
By all accounts, anyone can create an account, but then the account invariably quickly gets suspended, requiring a phone number for “verification”.
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#23Every time Facebook/Gmail/Google/Amazon/LinkedIn/Tinder/whoever asks me to give them phone number "just in case" my first and only thought is "hell no". I haven't been wrong a single time.
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#24What a great service to gather phone numbers even from those who haven't been pawned!
I trust Troy more than I trust Facebook. His incentives are aligned with staying honest.
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#25Troy says: " At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 8 have completed loading."
Interestingly, several cellphone numbers I know to be present in one set of leak data which start with international code 4 are not detected by HaveIBeenPwned.
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#26I just logged in to Facebook for the first time in years to check the data it has on me. Luckily I never added my phone number or address, so should hopefully be in the clear.
Try creating a new facebook account today. The site won't let you do that without verifying a phone number. The difficulty level increases if you try doing so behind a vpn. Same goes for other SM sites like Twitter.
Don't they have a "real person" policy now? ie. not only phone number but as well a requirement to upload a passport style photo. Concidentally on entrance to US a camera makes a high resolution photo of every traveller during passport control.
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#27I'm sure not to be the first one to point this out, but checking other people's emails is quite revealing. It's very much documenting in public which sort of websites about every person you know is visiting. Among them [1] "Baby Names", "Ashley Madison", "Adult FriendFinder", "diet.com". Want to profile your friends – there you are. I wonder if the benefits of haveibeenpwned outweights this. [1] https://haveibeenpwne…
I just checked myself and thankfully I've apparently only been in a few breaches, but of the ones listed, I only knowingly had accounts on LinkedIn and Dropbox. Nothing embarrassing because I'm smart enough to use burner accounts for embarrassing stuff, but I only even recognize last.fm and LuminPDF as services. I'm surprised last.fm still exists. I guess I might have signed up for it at some point and forgotten.
My phone number isn't in here anywhere, so lucky me, but it doesn't make a difference. The State of Texas finally forced me to get a Texas driver's license in order to continue being able to vote, and the State of Texas sells your address and phone number to marketers once they have it, so my number is trash now anyway. 99 out of 100 texts and calls are either politicians or people claiming to want to buy one of my houses. I basically no longer use a phone except when my dad calls.
I guess the plus side there is I'm somewhat immune from whatever location tracking can't be disabled since I don't even take my phone with me most of the time when I go anywhere, but that was an old habit from when I worked in a SCIF and couldn't bring a phone with me anyway.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#28Interestingly www.TroyHunt.com is blocked by Quad9 DNS!
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#29I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
Yeah these companies that rely on user data will NEVER delete your data once you submit it to them (regardless if they say your data is deleted or account closed). For company like FB you are the product.
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#30Can I sue Facebook for leaking my number? Serious question.