Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
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Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#2Following the release of the 533 million phone numbers (acquired through the 2019 Facebook vulnerability), we wanted to bring awareness to the security & privacy implications of a public worldwide mobile phonebook.
You can check yourself, your family, friends and colleagues and inform them.
Disclaimer: we do not display (or even store) the phone numbers, we only show the last 2 digits so you can confirm it's yours.
Happy to answer related security and privacy questions.
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A few Persons of Interest:
Mark Zuckerberg https://facebookbreach.com/4
Didier Reynders (EU Privacy Chief) https://facebookbreach.com/100011885742964
Emmanuel Macron (President of France) https://facebookbreach.com/100026099615243
Xavier Bettel (Prime Minister of Luxembourg) https://facebookbreach.com/901110787
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#3Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#4Good to know, I guess, but seems like there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#5Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
Did you click the link? You look it up by name.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#6Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
NextDNS is a trusted company IMHO.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#7Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
Unlike other similar (and often suspicious) websites:
- you do not enter your phone number (or email). You just search yourself (or your close ones) by name, the same way you would Google or Facebook yourself or your friends.
- even if that shouldn't be the only trust signal, we (the folks at NextDNS) work around security and privacy every day for the benefits of the users. And while we are still a startup, we are used by many, including experts in the security industry.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#8Good to know, I guess, but seems like there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Yes, this breach is awful because of its massive scale, its inherent irreversibility and the uniqueness of the data (phone numbers).
We try to shine a light on the implications of this on the website itself (you may need to scroll down a bit).
Short term, just being aware of it should make things better, as there is going to be a massive surge in phishing and other types of attacks.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#9This domain will be seized because of trademark use in the name.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#10Following the release of the 533 million phone numbers (acquired through the 2019 Facebook vulnerability), we wanted to bring awareness to the security & privacy implications of a public worldwide mobile phonebook. You can check yourself, your family, friends and colleagues and inform them. Disclaimer: we do not display (or even store) the phone numbers, we only show the last 2 digits so you can confirm it's yours. H…
It would be useful to have a search results when names aren't unique. I share my name with a famous author (not a sci-fi author, but somehow he went back in time to steal my name before I was born), but I'm not going to click through all of them to see which one is me.
On the plus side, I'm liking my good choice of having a non-unique name right about now.