Personal Data Leak Monitor

Facebook data breach

509M accounts from Facebook (facebook.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included dates of birth, employers and genders.

Breach date
August 1, 2019
Accounts
509,458,528
Added to the database
April 4, 2021

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesEmployersGendersGeographic locationsNamesPhone numbersRelationship statuses

What to do now

  1. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  4. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls

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About this breach

In April 2021, a large data set of over 500 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook's subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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