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Report: 270 Million Facebook User Details Leaked

         

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3:52 pm on Dec 20, 2019 (gmt 0)

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According to a report, 270 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names were exposed in a unprotected database online and discovered on December 14. The database has since been removed.


A Facebook spokesman said in a statement that the company is looking into the issue but thinks the data was likely harvested before it made changes to better safeguard user information such as restricting access to phone numbers.

To help protect your Facebook data from getting scraped, you can change your privacy settings so search engines outside of Facebook can't link to your profile. You can also deactivate or delete your Facebook account.


[cnet.com...]

phranque

6:25 am on Dec 28, 2019 (gmt 0)

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i wonder what percentage are fake/spam/troll accounts....

tangor

8:12 pm on Dec 28, 2019 (gmt 0)

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Hopefully mine are not in there, I deleted my FB account last year...

(Nah ... FB, like anyone else, never gives of any datum in hand!)

Oh, well.