Hacker says he can get phone numbers on Facebook which are not supposed to be public

It’s been known for years that anyone can find out your phone number if you gave it to Facebook and didn’t lock down your privacy settings, but a security researcher has claimed there is a way to find phone numbers which are not set to “public” on Facebook accounts.

Belgian security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire said he discovered he could exploit Facebook in order to get hold of cell phone numbers which are not supposed to be publicly visible.

Please keep in mind that most of this news required using translations to read it in English and that can mangle quotes. De Ceukelaire said he was able to “identify the mobile phone numbers of top politicians and Flemish celebrities through their Facebook profile. This involved numbers associated with that profile, but normally not visible publicly.” To prove his point, he pulled up the phone number of Belgium’s Interior Minister Jan Jambon via his Facebook profile and then did the same thing for other politicians and celebrities.

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