Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users

Re:Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked ... by galaxyLogic on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:04PM (#26694341)

I don't much care about my phone-number being leaked. Why because I don't answer my phone, unless I know who is calling. I do get lots of spam calls every day but thanks to my smart-phone spam-calls can be blocked. And if the hackers want to steal my identity, they cannot answer my phone and thus pretend to be me, can they?

Remember all phone-numbers used to be in a public book called "Phone Book".

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked ... by AI_WAIFU on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:09PM (#26694361)

> they cannot answer my phone and thus pretend to be me, can they?

Yes they can, they can totally do that and if they do you're screwed. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22332315/sms-redirect-fla...

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked ... by galaxyLogic on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:56PM (#26695181)

Interesting. But isn't this more like something (re-routing of text-messages) that happens inside compromised telecom service-provider? If they can hack the telecom-provider they don't need to get my phone-number from Facebook.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked ... by eslaught on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:34AM (#26695389)

I haven't read the article in detail, but I think the point is some versions of this attack can be carried out by pure social engineering. Go into a store, claim to be you, talk your way out of giving ID, then get a new SIM card associated with your number and walk out with it. In this case, name+number is indeed helpful info for the attack since it doesn't involve any actual "hacking" in the computer security sense.

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