The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned

Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by vharuck on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:09AM (#26711331)

When birthdate is tied to an account, I pick a random one and store it alongside the username and password in KeePass. Same as the "security questions"; I make up and store nonsensical answers. E.g. "Q: What was your mother's maiden name?" "A: Blueberry pie."

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by wussboy on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:43AM (#26712366)

I do the same thing but use KeePass’ password generator to create the answers. My mother’s maiden name will be something like “diejdJyt7ejHsud”

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by hiq on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:47AM (#26713313)

I do that as well, but I dread the moment I'll have to call support through no fault of my own and they'll ask me for the answers to some of these questions.

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by teachtwolearn on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:53PM (#26717256)

Just say, "it's a jumble of letters and numbers but I lost the USB drive where I stored all that stuff."

Most of these systems still use people who have quotas to meet, and can see all of your account details in some sort of admin panel.

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by benlivengood on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:12PM (#26715335)

I mean, probably anyone could call and start reading off the letters from "correcthorsebatterystaple" and the support tech will go "oh yeah, you're one of those people who thinks they're clever with security; here are all your account details"

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