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This past Saturday a hacking forum was flooded with stolen personal data from nearly 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million users from the United States.
The personal data includes phone numbers, full names, locations, email addresses and other biographical information. More concerning is that because the personal data was dumped on a hacking forum, the data was open to any threat actor who wanted to use it. Facebook has stated that the leak stems from their 2019 breach that resulted in the exposure of hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers, an issue that was fixed as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
As with any data breach, the main question those potentially impacted are asking is, was my data breached? And with more than 30 million accounts in the US impacted, there are many Facebook users looking for answers. The good news is there are a few online tools available to help.
HaveIBeenPwned - https://haveibeenpwned.com
HaveIBeenPwned is a website that tracks data breaches and can tell you if you have been part of any breach, including the Facebook one, by providing your phone number or email.
The News Each Day - https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-numbers-us
According to Gizmodo, this website allows you to check your phone number against breaches and according to the site creator, generates random phone numbers that start with the same five digits as your number and sends 99 fakes along with the real one to the server masking your real number.
While a breach of this size makes great headlines, the truth is that personal information such as this is most likely already out there for many of us. If you find out you are part of this breach or any others, there are a number of steps you can take which our team shared in our previous article, Part of a Data Breach… Now What?, including:
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