GucciGang Posted September 5, 2019 Report Posted September 5, 2019 As Facebook launches "Facebook Dating" in U.S., a blog finds 400 million exposed user phone numbers News outlet TechCrunch found a database of 419 million Facebook users containing unique IDs and phone numbers left unprotected on a server that anyone could access. Facebook says it has taken down the database and fixed the issue that allowed the information to be collected. The discovery took place the day before Facebook expanded its Dating product to the U.S. More than 400 million Facebook users may have had their phone numbers exposed, more than a year after Facebook disabled the feature that allowed someone to look up a user's phone number. TechCrunch found a trove of Facebook accounts on an exposed server, the news outlet reported Wednesday. The server was not protected with a password, meaning anyone could have found and accessed the database of users. The 419 million records in the database included unique Facebook IDs and the phone number listed on the account. Some also included the user's birth date, location and gender. Quote
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