Facebook Phone Number Leak

So how did they get my name and phone number from Facebook? It likely came from a 2019 Facebook breach. Facebook has since fixed the vulnerability that allowed for the breach, but data has a way of living forever on the Internet and this past weekend, that trove of data made headlines again. BleepingComputer reports, “The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free”

The data was first placed for sale in June of 2020 and as the data set became older, the price was reduced many times until this weekend when it was basically available for free. The sold data included 533,313,128 Facebook users, with information such as a member’s mobile number, Facebook ID, name, gender, location, relationship status, occupation, date of birth, and email addresses.