Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
by Julia Carrie Wong from Technology | The Guardian on (#4PMED)
The information was stored in an online server that was not password protected, according to a report from TechCrunch
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' phone numbers were exposed in an open online database, the company confirmed Wednesday, in the latest example of Facebook's past privacy lapses coming back to haunt its users.
More than 419m Facebook IDs and phone numbers were stored in an online server that was not password protected, the technology website TechCrunch reported. The dataset included about 133m records for users in the US, 18m records for users in the UK and 50m records for users in Vietnam.
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