Hacked data on more than 553 million Facebook users was leaked online over the weekend, including names, dates of birth, the status of a Facebook user, the city where they live, their workplace and sometimes even email addresses. But the most sensitive data that occurs at the leak is probably the phone numbers, which are often used for two-factor authentication. And now there’s a way to easily check if your phone number is leaking, at least if you live in the US
The website The news every day has a simple tool that allows you to enter your phone number and see if it’s leaking. Gizmodo tested the tool on some data from the actual Facebook leak and found it to be accurate. For example, we tested Mark Zuckerberg’s phone number, which was included in the leak. It worked. (We assume Zuck has now changed his phone number.)
All you have to do to check is enter your phone number without any hyphens or periods. You must also include the international country code at the beginning. For example, if you are used to seeing your phone number in this form 555-212-0000, you should get rid of the hyphens and add the number ‘one’ in front.
If you use the same false number above, the number you enter should look like this: 15552120000. If you include a variation that is anything other than the number range, the instrument will falsely tell you that your number is not leaking. In fact, it can be very good.
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Facebook did not say much about the leak, assuming the information was hacked in 2019. The data was offered at a price in hack forums two years ago, but the thing that makes this weekend’s leak different is that the data has now been leaked. free. Anyone can find the 16 GB of data with just a simple Google search.