mikiem2
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troyhunt[.]com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/
A boatload of data from Facebook was stolen, and has been circulating recently. There's been some doubt whether this was because of an old breach or something more recent. At any rate, as Troy Hunt [haveibeenpwned[.]com] notes in his blog, "There's over 500M phone numbers but only a few million email addresses..." so if you've got a Facebook account it might make sense to check.
mikiem2
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"Facebook will not notify the 500 million users affected by the latest data breach"
neowin[.]net/news/facebook-will-not-notify-the-500-million-users-affected-by-the-latest-data-breach/
Last week, a user dumped over personal data of over 500 million Facebook users on a hacking forum. The data set matched the one that was scraped earlier and was sold on the hacking forum.Facebook has now confirmed that the company will not notify half a billion users who were affected by the leak. In a statement to Reuters, a Facebook spokesperson noted that the social media giant was not confident "it had full visibility on which users would need to be notified". Furthermore, the Facebook spokesperson said that the data is out and there is nothing that users can do now. Hence, the company decided that it will not notify users about the breach. Lastly, Facebook confirmed that the vulnerability that allowed data to be scraped is patched.
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