{"id":9451,"date":"2019-09-05T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:27:10","slug":"419m-facebook-users-have-their-phone-numbers-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/419m-facebook-users-have-their-phone-numbers-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"419m Facebook users have their phone numbers exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/27124345\/gettyimages-487867268.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million records on users in Vietnam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA series of unprotected databases containing details of Facebook user&#8217;s accounts and phone numbers have been found floating about on a publicly accessible server.<\/p>\n<p>Each record contains the Facebook user&#8217;s unique ID and phone number listed on their account.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook are saying the data was scraped prior to the company cutting off access to phone numbers through the app but once again raises many security &amp; privacy concerns over the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/09\/04\/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed\/\">A huge database of Facebook users\u2019 phone numbers found online | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[129,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9453,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions\/9453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}