<story><title>A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Facebook: &amp;quot;This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not that &amp;quot;old.&amp;quot;  Some of those &amp;quot;update&amp;quot; dates are just a few days ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>compiler-guy</author><text>How many people change their phone numbers more than once a decade? How many people change their facebook accounts ever?&lt;p&gt;The age of this data may be &amp;quot;old&amp;quot; by whatever definition Facebook is using, but it is still of great interest to identity thieves and ne&amp;#x27;er-do-wells.</text></comment>
<story><title>A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Facebook: &amp;quot;This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not that &amp;quot;old.&amp;quot;  Some of those &amp;quot;update&amp;quot; dates are just a few days ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Avamander</author><text>&amp;gt; changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers.&lt;p&gt;What? That&amp;#x27;s not true, I reported the issue about user enumeration via phone numbers being possible in Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram to them last week and they claimed (paraphrased) &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a feature, not a security issue&amp;quot;.</text></comment>