If you have a Facebook account, it is likely that the phone number used for the account has been leaked. In such a situation, you can follow the steps given below.
Facebook data breach
In a massive data leak case, personal information of more than 533 million Facebook users was leaked online. Data included phone numbers, Facebook IDs, dates of birth and more users. According to Business Insider’s report, personal information of more than 32 million users in US, 1.1 crore in UK and 6 million users in India was leaked.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other co-founders Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz are also among the users whose data and phone numbers have been leaked. Security expert Alan Cheek first reported a Facebook data breach on Twitter. He said, “All 533,000,000 Facebook records were leaked for free.
This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is highly likely that the phone number used for the account has been leaked. He further said that, I still have to see how Facebook defends itself about this data leak.
Please tell that once your data has been leaked, now you cannot correct it back. But yes, if something like this does not happen again in the future, you can download your entire data and say goodbye to the platform forever. For this, you have to follow some steps.
1. For this, first you have to go to Settings Privacy and then Settings.
2. Now you have to click on your Facebook information in the left column.
3. Now you have to download your complete information and then click on View.
4. Now you have to click on the box on the right side of Facebook, from which you can add or remove the category of data.
5. After this, you can request other options like download format, choose the quality of the photo, video and other information.
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