I'm supposed to go to a random website and enter my phone number?
The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
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Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#132I'm supposed to go to a random website and enter my phone number?
It's not at all a random website. haveibeenpwned is renowned. Your phone number is not uploaded to the server, instead your browser asks for a whole range of (hashed) phone numbers and checks locally if yours was one of them.
The process is spelled out here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Privacy
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#133Found my number on there too even though I've deleted Facebook for at least 5 or 6 years now -_- Not sure when I gave them my number either, I hope it wasn't scraped from someone else's contact list... At least it makes sense why I received a bunch of spam calls over the weekend. Anyway it's probably good practice to recycle your number every few years, and not use it for 2FA to make switching numbers a lot easier. W…
In my limited experience, I've had more phone spam plus wrong number calls right after changing phone numbers due to the number being recycled.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly, but we can't do that either. What we need is some balance of both worlds. OOH, we do actually need to be contactable. OTOH, being too contactable means spam. I doubt there's a perfect balance, but either extreme come with too many problems. Email has decent spam filtering, and I think that kind of cat-mouse system will persist. That said, there's "room" for more whitelisting.
"I doubt there's a perfect balance, but either extreme come with too many problems." In principle, "pay me a small fee if you're not on my list, if I put you on my list now it's free" would work well (optionally refund someone who contacts you out of the blue that you approve of), but there's a lot of both engineering and social details between where we are now and such a system. It doesn't take much cost friction to…
Sounds like a good idea on which to base an ISP startup.
"Anyone not on your contact list will take $1 off your monthly bill for each phone call, SMS, or eMail they send to you (through our phone line & email servers)"
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#135A note for people with US numbers who aren't finding their info: > And finally, one last note on the data load process: At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 8 have completed loading. The other codes are in progress and may take several hours more before they're searchable. US numbers begin with international code 1, and it seems that they aren't ye…
Thanks.
For anybody getting a miss and wondering if they messed up the formatting, my US number is coming up now, formatted with a vanilla +1-123-456-7890.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#136I'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.
Data leaks like this are positive in that regard because we can prove they haven’t complied with GDPR quite easily if our deleted data comes up.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
My phone number (and some other details) were part of Nano Ledger's database that got stolen last year. So, some entrepreneurial scammer started calling me on a daily basis a few months ago. Really annoying. I'm well aware my phone number and email addresses are pretty much public information at this point. I actually put that on my web site even. But stuff like this makes me even less likely to answer unknown number…
So they really had your money then?
The phone scammer, no. Just some idiot trying to get me to do stuff I should not be doing. Given how he conducted himself on the phone, he probably does not have a great conversion rate. People that do this are not exactly criminal master minds. But I guess some people get bullied into handing over their private keys, which I assume is what he was after. He clearly had some setup that auto dials numbers. After this, he apparently removed me from that list. So, tip: annoy the hell out of them and waste their time as much as you can when this happens to you. Putting him no speaker got a few giggles out of the team.
The criminals that got into my account got too greedy. The bank's fraud detection system kicked in and rolled back the transactions. But at that point they had complete control over my account. Very scary. If they had been more subtle, they could have likely stolen quite a bit. So, also not criminal master minds probably.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#138I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
My experience is completely opposite to yours. I have a facebook account, phone number added and verified, profile privacy set to "friends only", but I can't find myself in the leaks.
My understanding of the dump is that it was scraped, thus it's non exhaustive by nature. There's only half a billion accounts in it after all, and Facebook has far more.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#139> Facebook: In April 2021, a large data set of over 500 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook's subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
> Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Phone numbers, Relationship statuses
This is annoying, but I just can't get too worked up about it. I assume that anything I tell Facebook is already more or less public.
Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#140After my wife's suicide (See the documentary Pain Warriors) I took over Karen's FB account as my own, and I changed the name on the account. Long before this breach I have been getting SMS Spam addressing me as Karen, on a number that did not exist when she was alive. FB data can be the only possible source of that spam. The spam is always trying to sell male enhancement products to 'Karen'. Anyone know how to stop t…
My phone has an option called Do Not Disturb mode. I have set a schedule to turn it on everyday from 12AM to 11:59PM. What Do Not Disturb will do is block (silence the notification or ringer) every message or call from someone that is not in your phone book. While unfortunately you'll still get the spam SMS, but you wont get the alert. The only way I can see striking back at these spam calls is to pick up the call an…
At least here human operators apparently are paid for call duration and they will prolong the call up to 15 minutes and you don't need to say anything.