Are you worried about the recent Facebook Data Leak? Do you want to know if your Facebook account has been hacked? Are you wondering if your personal information has been leaked? Find out, instantly, with a simple search on SecNews Facebook Breach Checker if your Facebook account has been leaked!
Hackers and scammers are a constant threat online. Everything from social media accounts to email addresses can be compromised at any time. Older accounts can compromise your newer accounts. A careless, frivolous move - a click on a malicious link - can lead to a breach of your privacy. But that's not all! Even a leak, a data leak, from the giant companies that have services and social media (e.g. Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon) on which you have accounts can be fatal to your online security.
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A typical example is the recent revelation about the data leak of 533 million Facebook, including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, dates of birth and other information.
The news of the data leak was first reported on Twitter by Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock. Gal posted a list of affected users by country. According to his list, 32.3 million affected users are in the US and 11.5 million in the UK. The data was accessed via a Telegram bot.
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Upon reading this news, the first thought of all of us is: "Was my personal information leaked?" It is logical to be alarmed, as the data is available for anyone to obtain. No privacy after all, don't you agree? Agree!
Next thought: "How can I find out if my Facebook account is on the list of leaks?" "Easy!", we will answer you as we have prepared the appropriate platform for this task, namely searching and checking your account for possible breach.
At SecNews, and specifically at https://www.secnews.gr/facebookhack/, you can see if your account is among the leaks in the recent Facebook leak.
We recommend that you search by email as well as mobile phone to eliminate any possibility of a possible breach. For more accurate search results, searching with both elements is considered necessary.
What do you need to do?
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Go to https://www.secnews.gr/facebookhack/
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Fill in your email (email address) or mobile phone number.
Note: When searching by mobile phone number, you must also fill in the international dialing code, e.g. the search for Greece is done in the following format: 3069XXXXXXXXX, for Cyprus 357XXXXXXXXXXXX, etc.
Case A: If your Facebook account has not been compromised, the platform will display the following message:
Case B: If your Facebook account has been hacked, the platform will display the following message:
We should emphasize at this point that SecNews, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and respecting the privacy of users, does not store, nor are the phone numbers and emails checked during a search on the platform subject to any processing.
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Also, the database of recent Facebook leaks is powered by Have I Been Pwned. The service almost immediately added the database so that users could see if their email had been leaked via the Facebook data leak.
But what do you do if, during a search of your email or mobile phone, it is found that you have been breached?
First of all, there's no need to panic. Just because some of your personal information has been leaked doesn't necessarily mean your Facebook account has been hacked.
If you find that your personal data is in the leaked Facebook database, we recommend that you consult with IT security managers and specialized legal professionals/attorneys to see what you can do, both technically and legally, regarding these leaks.
Also, you need to be VERY CAREFUL as the leaked data can be used by various criminals to carry out phishing attacks, smishing, etc.
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It is very likely that malicious users, taking advantage of the leak's trove of data, will attempt to send spam emails, phishing emails and SMS to victims. Their goal is to trap you and grant them access to even more sensitive data such as passwords for social media accounts, bank accounts, etc.
How can you avoid a hacking attack? Every time you see a new message in your inbox or on your mobile, think about the following:
1) No bank and generally no serious company will ask you for sensitive information such as usernames or phone numbers via email or phone.
2) We never open emails that we are not expecting. You may have noticed that you also receive messages purporting to be from banks that you do not even have an account with!
3) If we receive something "strange", we delete it immediately, especially if it is in the spam folder.
4) Even if it appears that the email has actually come from our bank or PayPal, this does not mean that it actually is.
5) Phishing emails are very often poorly written, general and contain many spelling errors.
6) If we open such a message, we never click on links. It is preferable to type in the address ourselves.
7) Every time we type a link, we check in the address bar that we are in the appropriate location, that the appropriate security certificate is present, and that the connection is encrypted.
8) In the event that we determine that a message does not come from the legitimate sender, we report it immediately by clicking "report", so as to protect other users.
Remember that no one can steal our passwords unless we give them to them in one of the ways mentioned above.
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