I recall stumbling upon a comment on an unrelated social media post, which was discussing the Facebook data breach. It mentioned a website that enables you to determine if your information was compromised in the breach. Lately, I've been receiving numerous unsolicited phone calls from various area codes within my state. Despite attempting to search for the owners of these numbers, I've consistently found no results. Consequently, I suspect that my phone number may have been exposed online during my account sign-ups and such . Is there a website where I can verify whether my phone number has been leaked? Thank you!
also these are the sites I was using in case anyone was curious
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/
https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/
Hi all I'm looking for a website similar to have I been pwned for phone numbers instead of email and passwords it would be very useful to me as I keep getting spammed and I'm wondering is it by chance or did a company data breach leak it
On two separate occasions a few months apart I've received prank calls. The first time I was in a good mood, played along for a laugh, and got them to break character, working out that they weren't anyone I know. A week ago I received another one from someone whose voice sounds way younger than anyone I know.
A prank call, ofc, isn't that bad, and I find it quite funny tbh. But I'm worried my number has been leaked and is sat on some website somewhere.
Is there something comparable to HaveIBeenPwned for phone numbers, or can anyone think of how I could try and determine if/where my number has been leaked? I've got a UK mobile number, if that makes a difference.
I had to change my SIM recently and it was an absolute pain in the ass, which makes me pretty comfortable that my provider has my back in terms of stopping SIM swaps. I'd love to just ditch my number and start fresh but now I've ditched social media it's the only point of contact most friends have for me.
The thing that makes me angry is, for all my life, I've only given away my number when I've been forced to. So if it's been leaked its some company/organisation that stopped me from progressing in a sign up or whatever without my number. I'll be getting MySudo as soon as they release Android support.
https://haveibeenpwned.com
With the recent moons and xrp news, I think we can expect a lot of newcomers in the next few days/weeks, so its important to know that your data could be out there due to a data breach!
So just fyi: you can use haveibeenpwned.com to check this.
Although malware and phishing are still probably the most likely way to get rekt, losing everything due to a data breach from some company or service you signed up for is easily preventable.
When I first used this years ago, I was shocked to find that not only my name, address, email address, and phone number were leaked, but my password was leaked too! I was very lucky to survive that, and so I'm just sharing this in the hopes of saving someone from catastrophic failure!
Share it around! Love you guys! Hope this helps!
Why YSK: If your email or cell number has been leaked you should change the password on the sites it shows and if you use that password anywhere else. It helped me alot
Somehow I wasn't one of the 500 million people who's info got leaked by Facebook.
But fuck you Zomato for leaking my email few years ago.
Aye
Recently they added function to check your phone number
Doesn't hurt to check your emails as you may not know about some breaches and leakes
Troy Hunt has now added the entire Facebook data breach to haveibeenpwned.com and you can use it to search and see if your phone number is in the list.
Now I have a question for the hive mind: suppose I know someone whose phone number is in the breach. What should I suggest they do? The breach contains mainly the phone number and name of the person. Often there's location data. Rarely there is an email address. To turn this into an attack someone needs to use this to get more data; like a phishing scam, or something. The whole thing is so fuzzy and open-ended that I can't figure out what advice I could give to someone.
It's been a year since both of these scams I fell for, I fell for the "pin" code scam in September of 2021 when a scammer fooled me and tried to make accounts using my personal phone number for Coffee Meets Bagel, I stupidly shared with them many different codes they sent me, but I did it in a fast manner and they eventually stopped trying to make accounts using my personal phone number. I have the scammers phone number blocked now and I emailed the dating app company this year about it and they emailed me back on my personal gmail saying they found no accounts tied to my personal phone number.
The other scam I fell for was in July of 2021, this was when a Snapchat spambot matched with me on tinder, I stupidly added them on snapchat not knowing they were a spambot, then they sent me a link which then asked for my snapchat username, email and cc details. I had no idea it was a scam during the time, so then I proceeded to enter my personal gmail into that website and the last remaining amounts on a visa gift card into their website which then sent me to some dating site which I had an account for for a second or two, but I instantly deleted it and blocked and reported the spambot to snapchat.
I've read articles from Cybersecurity professionals about these scams and how to avoid them just yesterday, I was uneducated on how to avoid things like these in 2021 and I see how obvious it is now to always use common sense by never adding someone you don't know on snapchat and to always turn off your dm requests on every social media.
Are the results on haveibeenpwned.com accurate because it's been so long since I fell for these scams?
In order to show up the data has to be publicly posted. Since it was just in the last year, and it was given directly to them (instead of a company beach), they probably find the data useful and aren't done with it themselves. When they are done with it they will post it somewhere so others can have a go with it, that's when it might show up on HIBP.
You're phone and email hasn't been found in a database breach yet.
I used HIBP for email addresses and if I remember correctly I could also check phone numbers there too, some time ago. Is there a safe to use website to check if my phone number got leaked in data breaches ?
Thanks
Getting a few spam/scam calls recently. I know the service sometimes exists for passwords etc, is there a way to find out for other personal information?
Hello so i know this is stupid since i can just research it and find the answer easily but im currently sick right now and i can barely remember stuff so im making a post just so i can remember and check when im not sick anymore
This is also for both me and my friend and hes a little paranoid so im making a post to also check if its real
So is the real site is the one in the picture and what do i do if it found a data leak? Do i just change password? And how do i check if its a old password? I havent used it so i dont know
Starting at around 10:00 this morning I have received 6-7 robocalls from scammers with a different number each time. I've never answered any calls from a number that wasn't a contact, and I'm wondering why this all started just today. Haven't got an email from Have I been Pwned, so I have no idea if an account with my number has been victim of a database leak, if the scammers are bruteforcing phone numbers, or if I somehow got added to a scam calling list. Any help finding a possible answer would be greatly appreciated.
I've been getting random Whatsapp messages and now even normal messages. I have no idea where or how it came to be, it just started happening all of a sudden.
Is there a way to check leaked phone numbers the same as emails? I use haveibeenpwned for emails, is there an alternative for phone numbers?