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We’re talking about a website that allows you to enter a number to see if it’s in a leak. People are saying you shouldn’t put a number in there because if it’s not already in there, you are leaking some kind of privileged information. That’s not true.
If that's the case then please go ahead and post a comment containing your full phone number
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I don't understand how a serious effort would be required, even if the chosen delimiter being present within the data is an issue, the phone number is the first field. I can get all the phone numbers myself with a simple `cat * | cut -d ":" -f 1`
That's the ID number you just grabbed. The phone number is the second field :) If that's literally all you want, yes, it's not that hard. But a non-trivial number of people decided to put commas or colons in their names and other nonsense like that, there are lots of commas in the hometown or location fields which makes parsing those a pain, etc.
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I haven't had the chance to check the dump but I am sure Facebook had my phone number. I'm surprised this site says my number wasn't leaked.
If "Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?" setting wasn't set to "Everyone" in your privacy settings, then your phone number wouldn't be visible to the scraping campaign that was the source of this.
To clarify: in 2019 you could enter a phone number into Facebook search and it would show you whichever profile was associated with the number of it was set to public.
The “hackers” set up a script to go through every number sequentially: 15550000000, 15550000001, etc.
I would be very surprised if the original data doesn’t contains a LOT more information —- basically everything that can be found by publicly viewing your profile page.
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That's the ID number you just grabbed. The phone number is the second field :) If that's literally all you want, yes, it's not that hard. But a non-trivial number of people decided to put commas or colons in their names and other nonsense like that, there are lots of commas in the hometown or location fields which makes parsing those a pain, etc.
Aha we must be looking at different data then, possibly someones already done much of the corrections on the version I'm looking at.
There only ones that actually define the data are the 9 or so CSV files that have a header like:
id,phone,first_name,last_name,email,birthday,gender,locale,hometown,location,link
Those are what I looked at and those are super annoying because several have commas in both the first & last name. I don't know why, but a handful of people listed their names as some, guy, some, guy which I assume should be split into firstname: some, guy and lastname: some, guy. Then a lot of people have None for a birthday, some have something like May 8, and others have something like May 8, 1990. Both locale & hometown can be either None, or have several commas in them.
I had to reformat all that data and validate that each field made sense to parse it. There are helpful "Location" and "link" markers in the CSV but it's still super annoying to parse this stuff.
I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone number. Really says something about what delete means for fb.
With that said my details do not appear to have leaked.
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If that's the case then please go ahead and post a comment containing your full phone number
If I posted it as a comment, it would be tied to my identity.
So putting your phone into a website also ties it to your identity.
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Usually those phone directories don't include other personal information, like gender.
They actually do in Sweden and some also include all sorts of things such as social security numbers, criminal sentences etc. Very few things in Sweden that are not public data.
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Ads began in 2007, over 13 years ago. I purchased my first FB ad in late summer 2007. Not sure if that’s also when it opened up.
I don't think the first few years of ads really made a big difference - Facebook couldn't really figure out how to make advertising terribly profitable while not driving people off. Like most things, it took a few years to really take off. They IPO'd in 2012, and then really had to prove they could turn a profit (and increase it over time). I've honestly not been a heavy enough Facebook user to be able to pin the tra…