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People can now enter their phone numbers into a website to see if they appeared in a recent Facebook data breach.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Details of more than 530 million people were leaked in a database online, largely consisting of mobile numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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People can use the Have I Been Pwned<\/a> online tool to check if their numbers or emails were compromised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook says the data is from an \u201cold\u201d breach in 2019 but privacy watchdogs are now investigating.<\/p>\n

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Facebook said it had “found and fixed” the breach more than a year-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the information has now been published for free in a hacking forum, making it widely available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The database covers 533 million people in 106 countries, according to researchers analysing the data. That includes 11 million Facebook users in the UK, 30 million Americans and 7 million Australians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Not every piece of data is available for each user but 500 million phone numbers were leaked compared with \u201conly a few million email addresses\u201d, Troy Hunt, a security expert who runs HaveIBeenPwned said in a blog on his website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘Not just a tiny slice of people’<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr Hunt launched the phone number search function after \u201cunprecedented traffic\u201d to the website, following the news of the Facebook data leak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Previously, users of the platform could only search for email addresses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Visitors to the website can now enter their mobile number into a search box, and the website will confirm if it has appeared in the leaked database.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wanted to ensure Have I Been Pwned could answer that question for everyone, not just a tiny slice of people,\u201d Mr Hunt told the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It has also been suggested that Facebook\u2019s own chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, had his mobile number leaked in the database.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“This is the number associated with his account from the recent Facebook leak,” security expert Dave Walker tweeted, along with a screenshot of Zuckerberg’s leaked phone number.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC News<\/p>\n

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