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Facebook Data for Over 535 Million Users Leaked on Hacker Website

Discontinuing my use of all social media has been one of the best decisions of my life. Not so much for for data and privacy concerns but for overall mental well being. When you unplug you’ll realize how much of an addiction/habit it has become in your life.
 
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Shreducator said:
Discontinuing my use of all social media has been one of the best decisions of my life. Not so much for for data and privacy concerns but for overall mental well being. When you unplug you’ll realize how much of an addiction/habit it has become in your life. listening to long-form podcasts and reading substacks instead of watching cable news. It’s like going from eating fast food to having your own in-house chef.
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Same for me but with long form podcasts and reading substacks instead of watching cable news. It’s like going from eating fast food to learning how to cook like a chef and eat super healthy meals.
 
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NightFox said:
Are you saying no one should use a website that has even been breached?

Maybe you should add "After 2013, if anyone has their data on MacRumors, then they are themselves to be blamed"?
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And let's not forget the fact that iCloud was hacked awhile back…
 
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So this mega-tech company is not capable of protect even my username and password!
 
I have my account info at all three credit reporting agencies "frozen" (even I can't do anything, unless I thaw them), since that last hack at one of them, several years back. How vulnerable am I still, to identity theft due to breaches at sites like FB and elsewhere?
 
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Email that I use for FB isn't showing up so wonder if this is less of a breach of FB but rather from phishing or brute force password attack. Anyway, use throwaway info/email and use a browser vs app.

https://monitor.firefox.com/
 
I found list of countries and respective numbers of users from those countries on Telegram accounts that are shown on twitter. I did sum and it shows

815 766 690 users not 533 mill.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1349671417625931778

Albania 506598
Algeria 2753389
Angola 508889
Argentina 2339552
Australia 10335994
Austria 1249388
Bahrain 1717388
Bangladesh 3816349
Belgium 3899708
Bolivia 2969197
Brazil 8064910
Cameroon 1997648
Chile 6889072
China (PRC) 664063
Colombia 17957882
Costa Rica 1249736
Croatia 1393646
Czech Republic 3130599
Denmark 2138831
Easter Island 6889072
Egypt 46131721
Finland 1214441
France 22633482
Germany 10060056
Ghana 1027960
Greece 617714
Guatemala 1645058
Hong Kong 2937834
Hungary 3050356
India 6162123
Iran 1685080
Ireland 1449379
Israel 5840751
Italy 35677320
Japan 23121090
Jordan 3101036
Kazakhstan 3214290
Kuwait 4085589
Lebanon 2214542
Libya 4841817
Malaysia 11675715
Mexico 13330528
Morocco 5364973
Netherlands 5925935
Nigeria 11634758
Norway 1963459
Oman 5441140
Palestinian Settlements 664382
Panama 1502308
Peru 8075289
Philippines 899619
Poland 4720382
Portugal 2394787
Qatar 3617712
Russia 34969216
Saudi Arabia 11406199
Singapore 3868510
South Africa 14323141
Spain 17802136
Sweden 4048322
Switzerland 1592039
Syria 6844650
Taiwan 734803
Tunisia 6392568
Turkey 22765545
United Arab Emirates 9406460
United Kingdom 34637834
United States of America & Canada 209663256
Uruguay 1509315
Vietnam 92321998
Yemen 5086161
 
mi7chy said:
Email that I use for FB isn't showing up so wonder if this is less of a breach of FB but rather from phishing or brute force password attack. Anyway, use throwaway info/email and use a browser vs app.

https://monitor.firefox.com/
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See my post on the previous page. The leaked data only has email addresses for 2.5 million of the 535million leaked accounts. For whatever reason the data doesn’t have email addresses for most accounts and is a subset of a profiles data. That means you can’t do an email lookup for around 533million of them to find whether you are in the leaked data set.

Haveibeenpwnd are considering adding a phone number lookup as a result. Right now haveibeenpwnd is only going to be useful for 0.5% of impacted users.
 
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I did manage to find some of my friends in there... Scary stuff.
When it comes to posting stuff or adding data to any social website, we should always regard them as "public" regardless of the "privacy settings"...
 
Smigit said:
See my post on the previous page. The leaked data only has email addresses for 2.5 million of the 535million leaked accounts. For whatever the data doesn’t have email addresses for most accounts and is a subset of a profiles data. That means you can’t do an email lookup for around 533million of them to find whether you are in the leaked data set.

Haveibeenpwnd are considering adding a phone number lookup as a result. Right now haveibeenpwnd is only going to be useful for 0.5% of impacted users.
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I searched through the USA 3.05GB database and don't see any reference to myself either by name , FB ID, telephone, email, etc.
 
Smigit said:
Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately I show up.
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Glad to be of help! Sorry that your nº is out there :-(

I wasn't surprised to see the lage number of phones exposed in Spain. Mine isn't on that list thankfully because I haven't given it to Facebook, although I do use WhatsApp so "they" do have it. The Data Protection laws here where I live in Spain don't work at all.

I'm bombarded (until I block them on my iPhone) with scammers who not only know my name but my ID document number and address. Most commonly they claim to be from "the electricity company" with an offer, but really they attempt to get you to transfer to another company if you give them your details, for which the scammer receives a commission.

My friend "The Major" is an inspiration 😉

 
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...HaveIBeenPwnd is a great site and database, but I wouldn’t rely on it in this case unless they go through with the possible inclusion of phone number search. The leaked data has the wrong dataset.
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HaveIBeenPwned have now added a phone number look-up
 
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