Facebook Suffers Huge Leakage

[spartaman64]

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

From what I have read regarding this leak, Facebook is actually correct. The information from the leak is only information that users have publicly shared. That is to say, if you have (or had) a Facebook account, which you had a phone number attached to, and you had that phone number as public data, then you're on that list. If you didn't, then you aren't (with reports of some exceptions, like users with deleted accounts still showing up which is bad).

If we are going to blame Facebook then we should focus on the default settings on the platform. I don't think blaming Facebook for "being hacked" is the right way go approach this because they weren't hacked in any way. Their platform worked just as intended. It's just that someone used it for malicious purposes in the same way someone could use let's say a phonebook in the same way.

 

This is essentially the argument currently being made, and I think it is an awful argument that should be dismissed easily, which is exactly what Facebook is doing. It sounds like people want their cake and eat it too.

 

A much better argument that actually explains what is wrong and it is fixable.

the problem here imo is that they used a facebook tool to do it. its the same thing as the cambridge analytica leak

[Touch My Hamm]

Hold on a minute....A company with a history of leaking personal information and selling personal information had another leak. Not going to get into all the parts of whats good or not good and all that. But as someone in the IT field this shouldn't be a surprise.

[m0nsieurPsych0]

If you want to check if any of your contacts phone number are part of the leak and don't want to check every one of them by hand, I've created a small python program do to it.

https://github.com/m0nsieurPsych0/Facebook_Leak_Contact_Checker

 

All you have to do is provide a vcard (.vcf) and a file from the leak ( you can find on your favorite torrent site) and the program will pull out the info associated with that phone number.

I found 21 phone numbers in my contacts that were leaked!

 

**edit: typo**

[Vishera]

45 minutes ago, m0nsieurPsych0 said:

If you want to check if any of your contacts phone number are part of the leak and don't want to check every one of them by hand, I've created a small python program do to it.

https://github.com/m0nsieurPsych0/Facebook_Leak_Contact_Checker

 

All you have to do is provide a vcard (.vcf) and a file from the leak ( you can find on your favorite torrent site) and the program will pull out the info associated with that phone number.

I found 21 phone numbers in my contacts that were leaked!

 

**edit: typo**

Have i been pawned is better and easier solution:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, m0nsieurPsych0 said:

If you want to check if any of your contacts phone number are part of the leak and don't want to check every one of them by hand, I've created a small python program do to it.

https://github.com/m0nsieurPsych0/Facebook_Leak_Contact_Checker

 

All you have to do is provide a vcard (.vcf) and a file from the leak ( you can find on your favorite torrent site) and the program will pull out the info associated with that phone number.

I found 21 phone numbers in my contacts that were leaked!

 

**edit: typo**

I will be sending my sister a link to this thread.  She uses Facebook a lot and has for a long time.

[m0nsieurPsych0]

On 4/10/2021 at 4:52 PM, Vishera said:

Have i been pawned is better and easier solution:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Easier only if you have a handful of contacts to check. Personally I have more than a hundred phone numbers. I did not see myself trying to enter each one by hand. Using my program and checking for all my contact's take about 5 seconds to complete and pull out 21 hit.