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What to do if your data is included in the massive Facebook leak – Sydney Morning Herald
Security experts have now indexed and organised the leak of half a billion phone numbers, so you can check if yours is affected.
A huge collection of names and phone numbers dropped on hacker forums and passed to researchers over the past week may not be as open to abuse as passwords or credit card details, but criminals will still seek to use it for monetary gain.
The trove of personal data comes from Facebook and appears to have been scraped from the site before being sold around and eventually dumped. It includes more than half a billion phone numbers, matched to names, and a few million email addresses.
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