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Hackers can check your phone number from Facebook using cheap bot

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The database comes from a breach in 2019 where nearly 500 million users had their accounts scraped

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The Independent

Hackers can check your phone number from Facebook using cheap bot

The database comes from a breach in 2019 where nearly 500 million users had their accounts scraped

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Hindustan Times

Telegram bot lets hackers look up your phone number easily

A bot on the popular messaging service reportedly taps in a 2019 data breach of over 400 million users to serve up their phone numbers - for a small sum.

3 years ago·New Delhi, India

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Indian Express

Phone numbers of nearly 500 million Facebook users up for sale via Telegram bot

The security researcher has reported that users from over 100 countries are impacted. In India, over 6,162,450 users were affected by this Facebook data breach.

3 years ago·India

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The Verge

Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeSomeone has gotten their hands on a database full of Facebook users’ phone numbers, and is now selling that data using a Telegram bot, according to a report by Motherboard. The security researcher who found this vulnerability, Alon Gal, says that the person who runs the bot claims to have the information of 533 million users, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched in 2019.With many databa…

3 years ago·United States

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