533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Exuma on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:06PM (#26682698)

Where did you get the data leak, I want to check too.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by malaya_zemlya on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:15PM (#26682774)

https://t.me/freedomf0x/12553

I haven't checked the content myself, but this tg channel is usually legit

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by OkGoDoIt on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:09PM (#26684762)

Thanks. I'm just getting a "Please open Telegram to view this post from @freedomf0x" message. Any way to access this without signing up for Telegram? The irony of giving my personal info to another 3rd party just to check if my personal info was leaked by a different party is too much...

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by happyhardcore on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:17PM (#26684827)

the telegram has a text file with links to links by country, I've just stuck that at https://pastebin.com/3SvG1FJ0

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by benkaiser on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:21PM (#26694088)

And since that got taken down, here's a skylink:

https://siasky.net/AAC7DeBiGWL-QbG0cEFpCwuEiRlmrNLu7FdOUrF3t...

And a couple other Sia portals it's available through:

https://skyportal.xyz/AAC7DeBiGWL-QbG0cEFpCwuEiRlmrNLu7FdOUr... https://skydrain.net/AAC7DeBiGWL-QbG0cEFpCwuEiRlmrNLu7FdOUrF...

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Nerada on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:48PM (#26685430)

Is there an alternative to ufile?

I've tried three different browsers and none can get the download to work. It's possible I'm blocking some tracking domain at the router-level that's integral to the download functioning.

Edit: Turns out I was blocking Google's captcha.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by jrnichols on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:58PM (#26685826)

I was wondering this too, as ufile is really slow.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by elorant on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:24PM (#26686195)

Someone needs to torrent all these files.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by SebastianKumor on Sunday April 04, 2021 @10:23AM (#26689628)

could you post it again? the pastebin page got deleted

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by jzl on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:52PM (#26690978)

I doubt you'll find it anywhere else, it probably gets removed anywhere it gets posted due to violation of terms of service. I created a Telegram account and the Telegram link still works. I think that's your best bet.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by scorcoran on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:08PM (#26685178)

Goes without saying, do not use the link above. Downloads malware.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by matsemann on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:12PM (#26685197)

Which link? The ufiles? Why does it go without saying? Not like stuff is instantly executed by downloading. All I got for my selected country was a plain text file.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Exuma on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:30PM (#26685670)

What are you talking about? All the ufile links are just text files

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by hosteur on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:16PM (#26684817)

Yeah I assume that the data is not actually hosted in Telegram so would be really nice with a direct link or magnet or similar.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by fuzxi on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:06AM (#26686813)

There's no reason it can't be. Telegram limits individual files to 2GB but offers unlimited storage besides that.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by smdyc1 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:09PM (#26685553)

Were there any leaks of Australian data? I can only see Austria in pastebin (spelling mangled as Austriaia)

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by coatmatter on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:42PM (#26701298)

So far it doesn't seem to be clear but to me it appears Australia so far isn't as widely distributed.

Earlier, it appeared Troy Hunt was sent both Australia and Austria:

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1378481134086971394

https://gist.github.com/troyhunt/00b9aa28d486c9b81f18259fa80...

~196 MB vs ~34 MB respectively.

However, he later posted an update later expressing some similar curiosities:

https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1378938375881682946

https://gist.github.com/troyhunt/9a081cea0de6cbc63d93ebc0104...

The second gist is the one showing "Austriaia" (Austria, not Australia) and ~35 MB.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by hutch120 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:18PM (#26685919)

The file Austriaia.zip is data about Austria NOT Australia.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by incompatible on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:01AM (#26687014)

Speaking of Australia, who feels like handing over their driving license or passport to continue using the site?

https://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/internet/federal-gove...

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by vvll on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:21PM (#26685619)

Raidforums (where this list is originally from) also only has the Austrian data and no Australian data.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by somedude895 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:44PM (#26684564)

Thanks. Was just able to verify I'm not affected (deleted my acc years ago), but it's crazy how many of my friends' names plus phone number are on there.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by treysis on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:10PM (#26692458)

Seems like all German accounts with 8-digit phone numbers are missing. Only 7-digit number accounts are shown.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by cable2600 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:59PM (#26686558)

I checked Telegram and they had a facebook.txt 3.6K file that won't download. Did they nerf it? I can't find the real file as I don't read Russian.

Edit: Nevermind I found the pastebin below.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by mbirth on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:20PM (#26683358)

From the initial tweet the source is this:

https://raidforums.com/Thread-SELLING-Free-FaceBook-533M-rec...

However, the comments in that forum suggest that it's not "free" and/or not there.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by drusepth on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:43PM (#26686013)

OT: Failed their hCaptcha probably 10-15 times before I gave up and just closed the tab. Hadn't seen it in the wild yet; I'm glad it's not pervasive (yet).

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Black101 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:41PM (#26686725)

for me Google's captcha is much harder to solve then hCaptcha...

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by fuzxi on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:09AM (#26686821)

You might give this a look. It's a FOSS browser extension that auto-solves google captchas by switching them to sight-impaired mode and using speech recognition.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by hh3k0 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:30PM (#26682890)

Can you link it? I'd like to check if I am affected.

Regrettably, I was forced to create a FB account for work.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by cblconfederate on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:53PM (#26682570)

At this point i don't see why only facebook and the thieves should have access to this data. If the data is public it loses its value

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by somethingwitty1 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:59PM (#26682634)

What about this data being public causes it to lose value? It seems like it would be a boon for lots of companies even if every other company has it.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by Moeancurly on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:50PM (#26683063)

I believe they mean it can't effectively be sold if everyone has it. It loses value as a commodity if anyone can access it, but the value of the data is still in tact.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by kabes on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:37PM (#26683497)

But facebook is not in the business of selling your data. It's in the business of selling your attention and it uses data to do so. There's nothing about this leak that changes Facebook's position in this market in this regard.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by lostlogin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:55PM (#26685093)

> But facebook is not in the business of selling your data.

There are an awful lot of arguments against this stance and the argument supporting the claim appear to split hairs in a very convenient manner.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by lotsofpulp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:45PM (#26685746)

I can’t find any Facebook resource that says I can buy data, or any other reputable source that reports Facebook is selling details about people. Can you provide any?

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by lostlogin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:02PM (#26685843)

https://theatlantic.com/article/578599/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/facebook-d...

This one is interesting and refutes the argument you are making

“When the company argues that it is not selling data, but rather selling targeted advertising, it’s luring you into a semantic trap, encouraging you to imagine that the only way of selling data is to send advertisers a file filled with user information. Congress may have fallen for this trap set up by Mr. Zuckerberg, but that doesn’t mean you have to. The fact that your data is not disclosed in an Excel spreadsheet but through a click on a targeted ad is irrelevant. Data still changes hands and goes to the advertiser.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/14/18140146/does-facebook-s...

It’s in reaction to this below link in the NYT which is also interesting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/opinion/facebook-data-pri...

I argue that FB makes money by collecting data, then selling it. What’s the opposing view?

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by syockit on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:45PM (#26686295)

The opposing view is that the leaked data is only valid up to the time of the leak, and there is no guarantee it doesn't go stale, while Facebook has the fresh data.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by lotsofpulp on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:35PM (#26686244)

There’s no trap. We’re simply using different definitions of “data” or “personal data”.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by skizm on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:57PM (#26682617)

Why would the data being public stop robo-callers from using the list?

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by syockit on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:50PM (#26686317)

The only way the data can lose value is when everyone in the list change their numbers. If making it public drives them to do that, then good, but the inertia to do that is so big that I doubt most would. Spammers and marketers don't care if the list is being used by competitors, so the value of the data as spam target is also not reduced by making it public.

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by mhh__ on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:32PM (#26682906)

Value to whom?

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Re:533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have... by BenchDwarf on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:58PM (#26682620)

Source?

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