Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by hutzlibu on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:21PM (#15000602)

hm, definitely incompetence from the google team, but also a bit your fault, since you did not update your number.

Why did the backup email not worked? Or did they told you about the hijacking via the backup but said the only way to restore is via the number?

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by kuschku on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:18PM (#15000815)

Oh, the backup email worked. But to restore it's not enough. You need either

a) old password, SMS

b) security question, email , date of account creation.

And I didn't update the phone number because I had stopped using the account, and had forgotten about it (but I also obviously didn't want anyone to spam in my name, or extract my data).

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