I went though the Facebook leak 📦

12    05 Apr 2021 10:09 by u/WinstonThe9th

I had some free time so I wrote a little thing to look up my friends in the text files. I was pretty impressed. I searched about 40 people I know and I found 7. Most only had phone #, first / last name and a town. Only one had an email listed and it was her company. Still 7/40 is pretty high.

4 comments

6 u/None 05 Apr 2021 10:17
I've [fed most of my contact book into grep](https://ruqqus.com/+Privacy/post/9a76/facebooks-leaked-datatxt) and found 76/469 contact details, i.e. 16.2 %, similar to yours 17.5 %. Only two of the 76 have emails and dates of birth included. But when I don't focus only on my contacts there is a good part of entries with emails, dates of birth, info that allows to deduce maiden name, places of work etc. These accounts are easy targets for exploitation.
1 u/WinstonThe9th [OP] 05 Apr 2021 14:04
I too used grep. I was dumb and tried to actually open one of the text files first. My laptop really didn't like that.
4 u/AngstKitten 05 Apr 2021 10:41
What should people who were leaked be doing about it? Aside from getting off Facebook ASAP
5 u/None 05 Apr 2021 11:21
- Identify important digital services they use: email, all kinds of online apps etc. - Enable 2FA if possible or at least go through the process of changing security questions and remove any references to personal information, especially all kinds of names, schools attended, dates of birth, etc. - Unless their email password is already a strong, random string then go ahead and change that password to be a strong (=long) random string.