Facebook says leak of 533m accounts is old news, but knew about it in 2017?

[jack_christie]

Seen reports that the account id's were up to summer 2019.

Reports that they knew in 2017, but only acted in 2019, but disclosed when?

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?​

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.

www.wired.com

Reams of personal data – including phone numbers, email addresses, and birthdays – obtained from 533 million Facebook accounts was offered to all for free on a cyber-crime forum over the weekend.

Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck

Account info swiped in 2019, sold online, now given away for free

www.theregister.com

Facebook data leak now under EU data regulator investigation

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is investigating a massive data leak concerning a database containing personal information belonging to more than 530 million Facebook users.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? – Krebs on Security

krebsonsecurity.com

Some of the data is a bit rough, so dataset might not be complete yet:

The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned​

The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned

The headline is pretty self-explanatory so in the interest of time, let me just jump directly into the details of how this all works. There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned...

www.troyhunt.com

How I got your phone number through Facebook​

Feb 20, 2017

How I got your phone number through Facebook

Don’t have the time to read the entire article? Go to the FAQ section below for everything you should know.

medium.com

Taking the ****

 

[jack_christie]

Another vulnerability FB won't close!

Tool Links Email Addresses to Facebook Accounts in Bulk​

Tool Links Email Addresses to Facebook Accounts in Bulk

A video shared with researchers and Motherboard shows a tool linking email addresses to Facebook accounts.

www.vice.com