Facebook Search By Phone Number

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Just because you mark some of your Facebook data as private doesn't mean that you're hard to track down. Software engineer Reza Moaiandin has learned that it's possible to scoop up the public details of legions of Facebook users simply by guessing phone A hacker has exploited Facebook’s Graph Search to collect a database of thousands of phone numbers and Facebook users. Both parties agree that all the information was left public by users (even if the users themselves may still not realize it). Facebook's search system provides reverse look-up functionality that allows users to find other people on the website by searching for their phone numbers or email addresses instead of their names. "As we constantly iterate on our security tools to better Combined with intelligence from police investigations it will have been possible to hone down the search to a small number of apartments using only the mobile phone network records networks on social media such as Facebook, Twitter or location-driven Facebook users may want to think twice before putting a phone number on their profile. The social network encourages anybody who uploads pictures from their mobile to add their number too. But if they do, it means anyone can potentially find their name I changed my mobile phone number so he couldn’t text me anymore Then the worst thing ever happened. I logged into my Facebook account one day to find my profile picture had been replaced by a nude one. I didn’t even know when the photo had been .

Calling this an oversight is a bit of an understatement. Software engineer Reza Moaiandin has learned that it's possible to scoop up the public details of legions of Facebook users simply by guessing phone numbers with a random number generator. You see Columnist Jennifer Jolly shares details on the two checkups users can perform to stay secure on Facebook. The Facebook logo do you really want your phone number popping up? I don’t. Take a second to review some of the info on your profile and although you wouldn't know it by the number of people who fell for recent Kroger and Publix scams. Never, ever click on a Facebook link with a tempting offer before first checking it out independently. Do a search, contact the company, or verify it in some Investigators later found more than 11,000 images on a mobile phone in his possession, a number of which were said to depict imagery and propaganda associated with IS, including images appearing to show a beheading carried out by Jihadi John. A search of .