Après la découverte d'une faille de sécurité sur Facebook exposant 533 millions de numéros de téléphone à travers le monde, nous voulions savoir si le vôtre figurait dans la base de données fuitées.

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The spotlights were on Facebook at the start of last week after a big data leak was revealed.Following it, 533 million telephone numbers found themselves in the great outdoors, including around 20 million French numbers.

This large -scale security flaw dates back to 2019 while Facebook offered an importation tool for contacts on its mobile application.The functionality had been updated, but the evil was already done.All these telephone numbers had been extracted and collected by malicious people.

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If your number is in the Facebook leak database, we recommend that you pay attention to the abusive telephone potentials that you may be undergoing as well as fraudulent SMS.

To go further Facebook Leaks: here are the two tools to check if your number is in nature

In addition, it is important to warn against the dangers of SIM Swapping.A technique that allows a hacker to usurp your identity.Changing your phone number without changing your mobile plan could be a good solution to protect yourself from it.

Are you concerned with this Facebook flaw?

As part of our weekly survey, we wanted to know if, after checking on one of the two sites we recommend, your telephone number was affected by this Facebook security flaw.

It is clear that the results are generally balanced: 53.2 % of the voters were indeed not affected by this massive leak.Opposite, 46.8 % of you were affected: among this tranche of users, 28.6 % do not concern any concern, while 18.2 % of the concerned decided to take precautions.

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