Millions of #facebook users’ phone numbers may still be exposed online
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Data scraped from an exposed Facebook database containing user phone numbers and information that linked those phone numbers to names and other profile information has popped back up in a separate online repository, even after the initial database was mysteriously pulled offline, according to a report last night from CNET.
The initial, unprotected database contained more than 400 million records of Facebook users across the US, UK, and Vietnam. The exposure, reported first by TechCrunch earlier this week, is believed to have affected a total of around 200 million users.
Speaking with UK security researcher Elliott Murray, CNET reports that the current trove of phone number data appears to have been completely scraped from the earlier…
