A network with phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users has been posted on the network
On an unprotected server, they found a database in which the phone numbers of more than 400 million Facebook users associated with their accounts were written Rtvi.
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TechCrunch verified the authenticity of several records from the database by checking data with already known phone numbers and Facebook IDs. In addition, the editors used a password recovery function on unknown accounts, which partially shows the mobile number.
A Facebook spokesman in a conversation with CNN assured that the database found on the network is out of date. In addition, he said, it has a lot of duplicate entries, so it's premature to talk about 419 million data leakage.
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In 2018, Facebook was in the middle of a scandal with the leak of personal data of users of social networks. The company passed information on 87 million to analysts from Cambridge Analytica, who, it turned out, worked in the interests of Braxit supporters and Donald Trump's election campaign.
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