In early April, security experts made public the details of yet another Facebook data breach, this one affecting over half a billion users. As originally reported by Business Insider, in this incident personal information on 533 million Facebook users spanning 106 countries surfaced in a hacking forum, with records including email addresses, phone numbers, full names, locations, birthdays, and relationship statuses. This data traces back to a vulnerability fixed by Facebook in 2019, which allowed the scraping of profiles.
If that data set includes you, you’ll want to protect yourself in the future. The first step is to check whether you’re part of the breach. One of the best known sites tracking major data breaches is Have I Been Pwned, which has the trust of many security experts and government…