Facebook suffered another security lapse, this time involving hundreds of millions of users’ phone numbers.
Security researcher Sanyam Jain, a member of nonprofit internet safety organization GDI.Foundation, discovered an online server, which has since gone offline, containing several databases with more than 419 million phone numbers.
Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch reported that the server was not password-protected, so the data was accessible by anyone.
Jain was unsuccessful in finding the owner of the server, and Whittaker reported that after TechCrunch contacted the host, the information went offline.
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