Facebook Privacy Fail Could Expose 500 Million Mobile Phone Numbers

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If you have included your mobile phone number in your Facebook contact information, then you’ll be interested in a major security flaw discovered by Suriya Prakash.

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Prakash claims he has reached out to Facebook five times on this issue, and they refuse to fix or even acknowledge the bug, so he decided to go public with his findings.

Prakash believes that up to 500 million users could be affected by this vulnerability.

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Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search

Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the social network's "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said Monday.

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[MalwareVirus]

If you have included your mobile phone number in your Facebook contact information, then you’ll be interested in a major security flaw discovered by Suriya Prakash.

(read more)

Prakash claims he has reached out to Facebook five times on this issue, and they refuse to fix or even acknowledge the bug, so he decided to go public with his findings.

Prakash believes that up to 500 million users could be affected by this vulnerability.

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i know it will happens with facebook in futher so i never gived my no. to facebook before 1 week i try to register a fake facebook profile but it ask me to varify my mobile no. i simply leave this profile but in 2010 when i move from orkut to facebook there is no need of mobile no. after google apply this policy facebook also apply before some days yahoo profile r hacks ,everyone know facebook uses our data in roughly way coz he know people r depends on facebook now.

 

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After reading a few of these topics I am really thinking of deleting my Facebook because of this.

 

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After reading a few of these topics I am really thinking of deleting my Facebook because of this.

Last year 2011 december i delet my facebook acc. but facebook says your acc. is deactivate so i think its deleted when feb 2012 i try check my acc. facebook says welcome back so ,are facebook really deleted our acc. ? some people says facebook change this policy but who knows ?
Good luck if you success to delete your acc. on facebook.

 

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Contact Facebook support, you can get most online accounts deleted if requested via email.

 

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Facebook removes two-factor authentication mobile numbers from search

Facebook users who have associated a mobile phone number with their accounts in order to enable the social network's "Login Approvals" security feature can no longer be found on the website based on those phone numbers, the company said Monday.

Read more (PCWorld.com)

Yup you r right i just created 2 FB acc. & facebook didn't ask me to mobile varification as it did before some days.
Thanx

 

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Today facebook again starting its mobile verification check.But at least i creat 3-4 fake acc. for the futher durings two days