Hundreds of Millions of Phone Numbers From Facebook Accounts Leaked Online

[lec0rsaire]

This is disgraceful. None of these companies care about anyone’s security. Unfortunately we’re often forced to provide this information for one reason or another.

I believe my account was hacked and I had to turn two factor on otherwise I would never voluntarily give a business my private number. I don’t enter any sweepstakes either for this reason.

I haven’t even used FB in a couple of years now. I only keep it to keep track of birthdays and stuff like that but I may finally have to close my account.

 

[triptolemus]

Permanently deleted my FB account in April. Never looked back.

"permanently"
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I haven’t even used FB in a couple of years now. I only keep it to keep track of birthdays and stuff like that but I may finally have to close my account.

This makes no sense. Your "not having used FB in a couple of years now" is mutually exclusive from keeping it to "track birthdays and stuff like that."

The same refrain every time one of these hacks/leaks comes up. How in the world did people manage to keep track of birthdays, family and friends before Facebook.

Wake up people... wake it on up. Coffee's ready.

 

[lec0rsaire]

"permanently"
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This makes no sense. Your "not having used FB in a couple of years now" is mutually exclusive from keeping it to "track birthdays and stuff like that."

The same refrain every time one of these hacks/leaks comes up. How in the world did people manage to keep track of birthdays, family and friends before Facebook.

Wake up people... wake it on up. Coffee's ready.

I get mail saying it’s so and so’s birthday. I don’t have to actually sign in. Capisce?

 

[R.P.G]

Class action anyone?

Facebook might have lost count how many they are in now.

 

[Clix Pix]

Recently one of my friends had a birthday and she did the FB Donation thing, naming the charity to which she wanted donations made and so on.... Sure, it's a lovely idea, but it really never occurred to her that, hey, there might be a problem with friends and family actually being willing to offer up their credit card and other info to FB in order to do this..... I emailed her about it and said that while I was happy to donate to the charity I was not going to do it through FB. I would do it directly. I just don't trust FB......

 

[d5aqoëp]

Facebook's wanton disregard for its users' privacy is appalling. I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts last year and am much happier and feel much more secure for it.

That’s blatant ignorance. Your data is still with them stored “safely” on another secret server. It wont ever be deleted.

 

[triptolemus]

I get mail saying it’s so and so’s birthday. I don’t have to actually sign in. Capisce?

If you say so. Your receiving email from Facebook is you still using Facebook, one way or another. Which is fine, you do you. Just know you're a tiny part of the rather large problem that manifests as the willingness of millions of people to sacrifice their privacy and the privacy of others for a little convenience.

At my house and on my phone and my wife's phone, Facebook, Instagram, and its 100s of various domains are blocked at the firewall. I've never signed up for a Facebook account in my life, and yet I'm sure they still track me one way or another.

 

[insoft.uk]

none issue, don't use my legal name and D.O.B is set to 1/1/1970 and no phone numbers so don't see any issue unless your stupid enough to enter your real D.O.B phone numbers and use your legal name

 

[Givmeabrek]

No interest in Facebook. If I did use it I would only use all fake info. Pointless...

 

[Emanuel Rodriguez]

Leaks happen all the time, they just don't often make the news. Most of us have had our private information leaked at one point or another.

You can query this database if you're curious:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

 

[Gutwrench]

Leaks happen all the time, they just don't often make the news. Most of us have had our private information leaked at one point or another.

You can query this database if you're curious:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

Just tried it with my junk address. “No pwnage detected.” Let’s see if I just got pwn’d.

 

[JPSaltzman]

I am constantly amazed how often FB pushes me with giving them my phone number "just in case" I can't log in.

Really?! How stupid are people? And, no, I would never download the FB Messenger app to my iPhone. That's just letting the wolf in.

 

[zed1291]

Facebook blows

 

[T-R-S]

Not even "complete idiots" deserve this. We are so much better than them, right?

again Zukerberg doesn't give me his private mobile # WTF does he need mine for?

 

[WatchAndWait]

Shut down Facebook already! They are ruining our society. We're not even surprised about these leaks any more. We expect them to be terrible, and yet they have so much money and influence that they can't be stopped.

Remember when everybody's landline was listed in the phonebook? Did that ruin society?

 

[MacBH928]

By this point I am glad that every facebook user will suffer privacy issues and gain pain for using their services as we have advocate online privacy but no one is acting on it.

Personally I am forced to use Whatsapp, and Instagram has no alternatives literally. That being said, I make sure anything I do on instagram will not harm me if it ever gets hacked or exposed, I mostly view other's posts.
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Remember when everybody's landline was listed in the phonebook? Did that ruin society?

You are not wrong, but that was a different era when people could not hack you and track you using your phone line. It was something closer to a PO BOX address. Now your phone number is used as an identification especially with services that send you confirmation codes and SMS bank updates.

 

[digthewell]

And yet Facebook user base will rally and people will continue to share more and more.

 

[woodjesse48]

So this is how all those scammers from India got my phone number

 

[deeddawg]

Are phone books so ancient now that nobody remembers them?

Freely available books, published annually, containing nearly everyone's phone number and street address.


That said, I saw no reason for Facebook to need my phone number so I've not given it to them. There's a bunch of info they asked for which I don't provide.

I do find the platform to be a valuable resource in terms of Facebook Groups for various hobbies. I don't follow any political stuff there and ignore what does show up.

 

[Digital Dude]

Reason #46 why I closed down my lightly used FB account 3-years ago. Twitter? No way! You see; I am truly blessed as trouble comes to me in the mailbox, over the phone, or when the doorbell rings. Now, if you have a GF/BF/Other' or kids, the incident rate jumps exponentially.

 

[sirozha]

Shut down Facebook already! They are ruining our society. We're not even surprised about these leaks any more. We expect them to be terrible, and yet they have so much money and influence that they can't be stopped.

It's impossible to ruin our society. You can't ruin something that is already in ruins.
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Reason #46 why I closed down my lightly used FB account 3-years ago. Twitter? No way! You see; I am truly blessed as trouble comes to me in the mailbox, over the phone, or when the doorbell rings. Now, if you have a GF/BF/Other' or kids, the incident rate jumps exponentially.

Reason #46 why I never opened a Facebook account.

 

[Emanuel Rodriguez]

Just tried it with my junk address. “No pwnage detected.” Let’s see if I just got pwn’d.

The website is legit, if that's what you're wondering. One of my accounts shows this:

You can look up those breaches, and they definitely happened, they just didn't make the news because these websites aren't large enough for it.

 

[ios-dan]

This has nothing to do with whether a person is still using FB or not. The leak contains years-old data.

The problem is that companies (FB, Equifax, etc.) are not appropriately held accountable for their continued lack of security. I'm usually a proponent of smaller government, but this is a place where we need big bro oversight.

"years-old data"? Seriously? I've had the same phone number for 10 years! And the same Facebook ID. Years-old data doesn't matter for this kind of information.
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Phone numbers aren't private, tons of them in a book called the phone book

What phone book contains cell-phone numbers? Get real.

 

[Expos of 1969]

Mr. Z has gone too far too many times. When will he be stopped?

 

[hermes16]

shut them down