The ceukelary inti ethical hacker helps you check if your phone is part of the world's leak of Facebook data.

Les données personnelles de plus de 3 millions de Belges se baladent dans la nature après le piratage de Facebook.Among the identified victims, the virologist Marc Van Ranst, who explains on Twitter that he was bombed with anonymous calls.

Caution is to put.There are not a thousand solutions to protect themselves.It is recommended:

1.To check if your phone number is compromised

2.To redouble vigilance with each call, SMS, message WhatsApp received from unknown contact

How to check?On the sidelines of the famous Haveibeenpwned site?, The inti ethical hacker of Ceukelary posted a verification platform reserved for its Belgian fellow citizens.Concretely, just take the direction of this site and encode your phone number.

Après une poignée de secondes, le site vous indiquera si votre numéro fait partie ou pas de l’immense fuite des informations personnes de 533 millions d’utilisateurs Facebook.

On the specialized forums, hackers are exchanged this colossal database which contains in particular the telephone numbers, the Facebook identifier, the full name, the date of birth ...

In itself, this data does not allow an online crook to connect to your Facebook account and usurp your identity.On the other hand, it has all the tools to tighten you in trap according to the sacrosanct principle of phishing.He can contact you by email, phone or WhatsApp by waving a credible threat or reward on the basis of confidential information that will strengthen the credibility of its manipulation.

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If your phone number is indeed compromised, "pay even more attention to phone calls, SMS and WhatsApp messages", hammers the inti site of Ceukelaire."Never transmit passwords, pine codes, etc..By phone or message.Do not pay for payments that you do not wait.If in doubt, contact the manager by another channel (email address or number that you can find yourself on the official website).»»