Over the weekend, cybersecurity experts revealed that about half a billion Facebook users' privacy had been breached, a treasure trove of information that included their first name, last name, date of birth, phone number and location. Facebook said the major leak was due to an issue in 2019 that had been fixed. Still, there is no rolling back of that data.More than 30 million accounts in the United States were affected, and the company didn't make it easy to determine if your data was included in the breach.
But third party websites are haveibeenpwned.com Make it easy to check out by slotxo entering your email. Now the system will check if your email has been stolen or not.That's a pretty big deal: although 533 million Facebook accounts were included in the breach, only 2.5 million of them included email in the stolen data. So you're less than half percent likely to show up on that website, although you're about 20% more likely to get hacked if you have a Facebook account.Troy Hunt,
creator and security expert of HaveIBeenPwned said on Twitter that he was investigating whether to add a phone number The main value of the information is to associate a phone number with identity, while each record includes only 2.5 million email addresses," Hunt's website said.While this information is from 2019, it is still valuable to hackers and cybercriminals, such as those involved in identity theft.Facebook (FB) did not immediately reply to CNN on Monday as to create a way to see if their information was leaked.
