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Millions of phone numbers associated with Facebook users have been found online in an unsecured database.
The database contained the phone numbers of more than 419 million Facebook users from across the world and included the real name, country and gender for many users.
The records leaked included 133 million records on Facebook users from the US, 18 million records associated with UK users - which will invite an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under GDPR - and another 50 million records on users in Vietnam.
No password was used to protect the exposed server. TechCrunch said it verified some of the phone numbers existing in the database by matching known Facebook users' phone number against their listed Facebook ID.
The database was spotted by Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI foundation, according to TechCrunch.
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https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Facebook
Millions of phone numbers associated with Facebook users have been found online in an unsecured database.
The database contained the phone numbers of more than 419 million Facebook users from across the world and included the real name, country and gender for many users.
The records leaked included 133 million records on Facebook users from the US, 18 million records associated with UK users - which will invite an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under GDPR - and another 50 million records on users in Vietnam.
No password was used to protect the exposed server. TechCrunch said it verified some of the phone numbers existing in the database by matching known Facebook users' phone number against their listed Facebook ID.
The database was spotted by Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI foundation, according to TechCrunch.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Facebook