Facebook Data Leak How to Check My Personal Information’s Not Exist
Recently
Facebook user's stolen information was posted on a hacker forum. How do you
know if your data was among them and if hackers can break into your account?
One cybersecurity company was the first to draw attention
to the massive data breach. According to him, the database contains full
usernames, phone numbers, Facebook IDs, addresses, dates of birth, biographical
information, and email addresses. The scale of the leak suggests that about one
in five Facebook users have been leaked. The probability that your data has
leaked into the network is about 20%.
So far there is no special tool that will allow you to quickly find out if your data was in the merged database, but there is a workaround on how to check this, the publication points out.
Use This Instruction to Verify Personal Information on Facebook Leaked Data
Go to HaveIBeenPwned.com
Enter the email address or mobile number you use for your Facebook account and click the "pwned" button.
After that, the service will inform you if this email address is in any databases leaked to the network.
- If your
Email ID or Mobile Number Linked with Any Database, Its shows the below message.
Please find below the image for your reference.
- If your
Email Id or Mobile Number not linked with any database. Please find below the image
for your kind attention.
Get Alerts on Any Data Leak
You can also subscribe to notifications on the site to promptly receive information if ever your address is still among the data leaked into the other networks. Even though passwords are not believed to have leaked along with other Facebook data, hackers still can compromise your account.
Conclusion
If an attacker has your email address associated with
your Facebook account, they can guess the password (especially if it is simple
enough and does not consist of a completely random set of letters and numbers)
to hack into your account.
At the same time, even if your e-mail has not yet been
found in the leaked database, the expert of the publication advises changing
the password on Facebook and be sure to enable two-factor authentication.
New breach: Facebook had 2.5M addresses exposed in an incident that impacted 533M subscribers' phone numbers. Most records contained name and gender, many also included DoB, location, relationship status and employer. 65% were already in @haveibeenpwned https://t.co/ltMkbZi9sK
— Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) April 4, 2021
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