Worried about your Facebook data? Here’s how you can check if your data has been leaked online. Read more to know about it!
If you are a Facebook user then this article will help you to know whether your Facebook data is secure or not. This includes your phone number, ID, photos, birthdays, etc. could have been seen by others without your approval. Yes, you heard it right! Your Facebook data is not at all safe. By now, you have probably heard of the huge Facebook data breach, in which almost 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries had personal data leaked online including Facebook ID, Name, Birthdays, and phone numbers.
Recently, security expert Alon Gal reported the data breach on social media. It says “All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked, I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data”
Now, the question arise how to check whether you are part of that breach. Here are the answer to your question where you can find whether your data has been compromised.
Have I Been Pwned?
A very popular site that tracks data breaches is “Have I Been Pwned”. You need to follow the link to the site and fill in your details including your email address or contact number. You will find out whether you are a part of the Facebook data breach. Also, it helps you to know that if any other breaches in which your data may be compromised.
Creator of Have I Been Pwned posted a tweet. Here’s take a look:
Facebook Data Breach: There’s More
Don’t you worry! We have another tool for checking your phone number against the Facebook data breach. The site called “The News Each Day” where you can put your phone number to find out whether it’s a part of the breach or not. The creator of the site, David Johnstone found a way to check your privacy. The site generates random phone numbers that start with the same five digits as your number and sends 99 fake and one real number to the server, so it can’t know which number is the real.
But what if you find out that data has been compromised? There’s a possibility. Here’s what you can do. You need to change your password first, use a password manager so that you can create and track unique passwords for each site (so if that one is compromised, it won’t affect any others). Also, you can use two-factor authentication for additional security.
