533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.

Are you still on Facebook? Have fun with your phishing scheme or fraud personal data breech.

#DeleteFacebook

Facebook makes it very obvious how to deactivate your account; it’s under

Account Settings > Security > Deactivate your account.

Don’t be fooled! Deactivation isn’t deletion, and when you chose this option, Facebook holds on to all your bits and pieces just in case you change your mind. (baloney they want your info forever)

533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.

https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4

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.

Now, the entire dataset has been posted on the hacking forum for free, making it widely available to anyone with rudimentary data skills.

In 2019 allowed millions of people’s phone numbers to be scraped from Facebook’s servers in violation of its terms of service.

In 2016 mass data-scraping after Cambridge Analytica scraped the data of 80 million users in violation of Facebook’s terms of service to target voters with political ads in the 2016 election.

3 thoughts on “533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online.”

  1. @FBI @FBIWFO
    Massive GDPR breach… Gosh that’s gunna cost Facebook millions in compensation, how do you claim compensation?

    In early 2020 a vulnerability that enabled seeing the phone number linked to every Facebook account was exploited, creating a database containing the information 533m users across all countries.

    It was severely under-reported and today the database became much more worrisome
    All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

    This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked.

    I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data.
    Details include:

    Phone number, Facebook ID, Full name, Location, Past Location, Birthdate, (Sometimes) Email Address, Account Creation Date, Relationship Status, Bio.

    Bad actors will certainly use the information for social engineering, scamming, hacking and marketing.

    Delete your Facebook account then facebook is supposed to delete your data in 30 days.they

  2. “Findings by the FBI & social scientists now substantiate the view that domestic terrorists—specifically acts of violence carried out by white males—are a greater threat than actions carried out by Islamist extremists like al Qaeda or the Islamic State.”

    The U.S. Needs Deradicalization—for Christian Extremists
    Programs designed to reform violent jihadis could help tackle the spread of QAnon and other conspiracy theories in evangelical communities.
    In a video posted to YouTube on Jan. 8, Joshua Matthew Black, a resident of Alabama, reminisced about his unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol. Black, along with hundreds of other Trump supporters, violently stormed the Capitol building in protest of a presidential election he believed Democrats had stolen. Hours before surrendering to the FBI, Black recorded a confession where he explained, “I wanted to get inside [the Capitol] so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it. … I just felt like the spirit of God wanted me to go in the Senate room.”

    Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal app. Zuckerberg’s phone number was among the leaked data of 533 million Facebook users. Apart from his contact number, data including his name, location, marriage details, birth date, and Facebook user ID was also leaked, according to an online report. A security researcher revealed that Zuckerberg uses Signal by posting his leaked phone number which confirmed the Facebook CEO uses Signal app, “In another turn of events, Mark Zuckerberg also respects his own privacy, by using a chat app that has end-to-end encryption and isn’t owned by @facebook. This is the number associated with his account from the recent Facebook leak,” security expert Dave Walker posted on Twitter with a screenshot of Zuckerberg’s leaked phone number which said, “Mark Zuckerberg is on Signal.”

    In another turn of events, Mark Zuckerberg also respects his own privacy, by using a chat app that has end-to-end encryption and isn’t owned by @facebook

    This is the number associated with his account from the recent facebook leak. https://t.co/AXbXrF4ZxE
    The news comes at a time when many users outraged with Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s new privacy policy are moving to seemingly safer alternatives like Signal. WhatsApp’s contentious new terms of service are slated to come into effect from May 2021. The updated privacy policy which changes how Facebook can access users’ chats with business accounts.

    Facebook’s co-founders Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz were also among the affected users whose data was leaked in the Facebook breach, according to Walker on Twitter noted that the data breach also included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s contact among the 533 million others. “Regarding the Facebook leak of the 533M people the irony is that Mark Zuckerberg is regrettably included in the leak as well,”he said.
    https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/23/usa-needs-qanon-deradicalization-christian-extremists/

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