A huge database of Facebook users' phone numbers found online (419m numbers)
Source: TechCrunch
A huge database of Facebook users phone numbers found online
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 3:00 pm EDT September 4, 2019
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online.
The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million records on users in Vietnam.
But because the server wasnt protected with a password, anyone could find and access the database.
Each record contained a users unique Facebook ID and the phone number listed on the account. A users Facebook ID is typically a long, unique and public number associated with their account, which can be easily used to discern an accounts username.
But phone numbers have not been public in more than a year since Facebook restricted access to users phone numbers.
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