An unsecured Facebook server has exposed the phone numbers linked to more than 400 million user accounts. Was your amongst them?
" allowed children using the Messenger Kids app to participate in group chats with strangers but without parental permission. The latest blow to the new privacy-friendly Facebook facade came just last night as news of a data leak exposing the phone numbers linked to 419 million user accounts broke. This security SNAFU really couldn't have come at a worse time for Facebook, as is evidenced by the efforts to minimize the number of phone numbers concerned.
Each of these data records contained both the Facebook ID unique to every member and the phone number that was listed as being connected to that account. This despite Facebookon April 4, 2018, that it was making changes to"better protect people’s information," by restricting the access to this data. In that announcement, Facebook also said"we know we have more work to do," which has been confirmed by this massive, and massively embarrassing, data leak.
The TechCrunch investigation found that, as well as the phone numbers and Facebook IDs, some of the records in these unsecured databases also contained the"user's name, gender and location by country."A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch that"This data set is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.
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