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I 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.
I 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.
Following 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.
However, I'm not sure if it's because my account was created at end of June 2019 that it didn't return anything, or if it didn't work. (it worked when I pulled up a couple of the big name user's id's and compared to the breach.
I 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?
I've been on FB since 2004, and my data was not in the breach. Stuff like this reminds me that I still need to scrub my profile. I really just want to keep the account open so I can receive event invitations.
I 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?
Dont be stupid enough to put your PII here, haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust, everything else cannot be.
Why? Troy is monetising as everyone else.
I 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?