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I don’t want to come off as a Facebook apologist, but are there any privacy implications in being part of this breach, if you are already listed in the phone bo
by wodenokoto 6y ago
I don’t want to come off as a Facebook apologist, but are there any privacy implications in being part of this breach, if you are already listed in the phone book?
- chii 6y agomobile phones tend not to be on a phonebook, and overwhelming majority of those numbers are mobile.
- emodendroket 6y agoThat is true, but I really wasn’t able to get from the article what exactly someone could do with just my name and number beyond calling me while knowing my name in an attempt to scam me.
- wodenokoto 6y agoWhere I live it is quite normal to have mobile numbers in the online phone book.
- akadruid1 6y agoIt's targeted phishing. In my country at least, it's hard to get a decent mass list of names/number pairs so the scammers rely on very dumb approaches which can be automated for lead generation, like robo dialling with recorded messages - "hello... <pause> I've been informed you have been in a car accident" and the speech recognition before putting a live agent on the call. Now with this super clean list they can do some automated profile building in advance and prepare the message - "Hello Mark... <pause> ...I've been informed you would like to have lunch with a senator". Also a lot of data brokers that provide spam lists like Lusha, LeadIQ, RocketReach will use this to enhance their databases. The profile on you they scraped from LinkedIn will now include your private phone number etc. All highly illegal in the EU but enforcement is lax and they hide offshore in the USA etc.