时间:2024-09-20 06:05:39 来源:网络整理编辑:百科
At this point, there's a good chance your Facebook data has been hacked, sold, leaked, or generally
At this point, there's a good chance your Facebook data has been hacked, sold, leaked, or generally misused by third parties. Now, at least in the case of the latest troubling Facebook-related incident which made the news over the weekend, there's a way to know for sure.
On Tuesday, Have I Been Pwned?, a "free resource for anyone to quickly assess if they may have been put at risk due to an online account of theirs having been compromised," announced it had added to its searchable database the 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers that are being swapped around by hackers.
The site, run by data breach expert Troy Hunt, lets people input their phone number to check if they're included in the scraped Facebook data set (which includes more than just phone numbers). If so, the site tells victims what was likely exposed, and what steps they can take to protect themselves.
Tweet may have been deleted
"The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address," explains Have I Been Pwned? "Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer."
On Sunday, Facebook said in a statement to Mashable that this "is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019."
The company also published a blog post on Tuesday, which explained that the user data in question was scraped off its platform. "Scraping is a common tactic that often relies on automated software to lift public information from the internet that can end up being distributed in online forums like this," read the statement in part.
Of course, not all of the information included in this data set — which Bleeping Computer, an information security and tech news site, reports includes "member's mobile number, Facebook ID, name, gender, location, relationship status, occupation, date of birth, and email addresses — might be considered "public."
If you do find that your Facebook data was scraped by bad actors, there's unfortunately not a lot you can do at this point. As Eva Galperin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's director of cybersecurity, noted Monday, you can't really change things like birthdays and phone numbers often remain static for years.
Tweet may have been deleted
Have I Been Pwned? suggests general security precautions people should take if they find their data in a breach, such as:
Step 1Protect yourself using 1Password to generate and save strong passwords for each website.
Step 2Enable 2 factor authentication and store the codes inside your 1Password account.
Step 3Subscribe to notifications for any other breaches. Then just change that unique password.
Notably, Joe Tidy, a cybersecurity reporter with BBC News, reported on Monday that Facebook said the hacked information includes user data from two separate incidents, one in April 2019 and one in September 2019 (so after the August 2019 fix Facebook told us about). We reached out to Facebook to confirm whether or not the dataset now in the news — also highlighted earlier this month by Alon Gal, cofounder and CTO of the self-described "cybercrime intelligence" firm Hudson Rock — includes user info from one or two separate incidents. We also asked Facebook to point us to where it notified affected users at the time. We received no immediate response.
SEE ALSO: Facebook data for 533 million users leaked in 2019 and hey, it's still out there
Thankfully for users whose personal information is now being passed out free of charge by hackers, the website Have I Been Pwned? is a bit more responsive.
TopicsCybersecurityFacebook
This coloring book is here for all your relationship goals2024-09-20 05:51
誰是本屆世界杯的頭號球員 ?梅西是世界第一嗎?(梅西贏了幾次世界杯)2024-09-20 05:18
為了法國 ,本澤馬放棄了他的世界杯夢想(本澤馬現狀)2024-09-20 05:10
阿根廷隊第三度奪冠 梅西榮獲金球獎(梅西金球獎和c羅哪個多些)2024-09-20 05:04
Chinese gymnastics team horrifies crowd with human jump rope2024-09-20 04:25
法國內訌更多細節曝光 !隊內2大佬不服本澤馬,1內鬼被打入冷宮(本澤馬為什麽離開國家隊)2024-09-20 04:18
梅西 :遭最多的侵犯,拿最好的成績(今年梅西進了多少球)2024-09-20 04:13
梅西太厲害!被金球獎主辦方總部虧待多年,仍有七個金球獎 !(梅西第四次金球獎是哪一年)2024-09-20 03:54
Olympic security asks female Iranian fan to drop protest sign2024-09-20 03:51
世界杯獎項揭曉:梅西2奪金球獎創曆史,親吻大力神杯 ,8萬人歡呼(梅西的金球獎)2024-09-20 03:19
Photos show the Blue Cut fire blazing a path of destruction in California2024-09-20 05:43
【波盈足球】 國際足總主席呼籲 以「比利」命名體育場 ( 比利,巴西 )2024-09-20 05:39
法國隊大危機 :金球獎得主本澤馬因傷退出世界杯 ,世界杯冠軍小組出局?(本澤馬是法國球員嗎)2024-09-20 05:38
梅西六奪金球獎!為何最後贏的還是他?(梅西金球獎年份)2024-09-20 05:23
Singapore rolls out video2024-09-20 05:05
世界杯次日 :梅西為夢再出發,姆巴佩亮相,黑馬迎首秀(梅西世界杯進過球嗎)2024-09-20 04:46
闊別6年,本澤馬憑什麽在歐洲杯回法國隊 ? 2020歐洲杯召回本澤馬,法國隊需要人來“背鍋”?(本澤馬入選法國隊隊員)2024-09-20 04:34
厲害了 !一天3個足球界第一 ,梅西金球獎看似很近 ,實則還不如C羅(梅西金球獎圖片)2024-09-20 04:04
This company is hiring someone just to drink all day2024-09-20 03:23
我在世界杯上所有的眼淚,都給了梅西(本屆世界杯梅西進了幾個球啊)2024-09-20 03:20