So... I just found ou my phone number has been breached and I deleted my account months ago...
Isn't this illegal?
Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
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#12So... I just found ou my phone number has been breached and I deleted my account months ago... Isn't this illegal?
It depends. Data seems to be from 2019. If you deleted the account recently, but it was there in 2019....
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#13Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
The dump is public and easy to find. If it's legal in your country to do it, dump it and grep for you and your relatives.
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#14I see a lot of people saying that this is from 2019. In a sophomore in college right now most of my friends created accounts in early high school - well before 2019, yet none of us have found any of our information. The only explanation I’ve got so far is it may have been limited to those over 18 when the data was scraped - most of my friends would have been 17 then. Any other ideas?
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#15Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
The dump is public and easy to find. If it's legal in your country to do it, dump it and grep for you and your relatives.
That is fine, what I meant is scammers will use this opportunity to grab more data from you under the guise of you checking to see if you old details are present or not & end up giving new PII as well
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#17I don’t want to come off as a Facebook apologist, but are there any privacy implications in being part of this breach, if you are already listed in the phone book?
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#18I don’t want to come off as a Facebook apologist, but are there any privacy implications in being part of this breach, if you are already listed in the phone book?
mobile phones tend not to be on a phonebook, and overwhelming majority of those numbers are mobile.
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#19Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
Why should I trust haveibeenpwned either?
I know the reputation of the owner of that site, but how is it really different?
Is the resource publicly verifiable ?
Its just implicit trust we have on the site.
Away from HN echo chamber, a regular user can't differentiate various websites.
Calling it stupid is a bit too much.
Re: Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public
#20Following 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…
Without being able to search by my unique identifier (i.e. my profile is facebook.com/IDENTIFER) because there are more than ten people with my name this tool is useless. Shame.