Deleted my facebook account 5-6 months ago - no loss whatsoever. Interesting news today - from Business Insider:
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.
The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.
Verified. This is true. The vulnerability was first reported on January 2021 - Motherboard:
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Look Up Facebook Users' Phone Numbers
A user of a low-level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers look up those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot.
Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose phone numbers may be exposed—one person advertising the service says it contains data on 500 million users. Facebook told Motherboard the data relates to a vulnerability the company fixed in August 2019.
Social media - it's like a herpes infection. The gift that keeps on giving...
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