How to check if your Facebook account has been exposed in the recent data breach

It was the news of the weekend: the data theft on Facebook that has made the data of 533 million users available to almost anyonePersonal data that has been stolen and leaked for free on the internet and that includes emails, phone numbers, usernames… yet another attack on Facebook's privacy.

Spain has not escaped this derision and a plain text file is already circulating on the net that, with a weight of about 800 megabytes, offers information on all the leaked accounts in our country.A fact that has concerned not a few users who wonder if their data has been exposed. And to check if the threat has touched you fully, nothing better than following these steps.

Is your data exposed?

An action that you can carry out from your PC, from your mobile phone, a tablet and in general from any device that has Internet access and a browser. All you have to do is access the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service.

On this web page, which has already been used to check if our data has been exposed in other leaks and information thefts, you can now check if our information has come to light in the Facebook data breach.

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Just enter this link and type in the search box the email address with which we have registered our Facebook account. Click on the button pwned and if we have some type of risk, the screen lights up in red with the following message:"

And among all the data, in the event that our Facebook account is affected, it will be on the list. If, on the contrary, our account is clean, we will see a green screen with this other message:

In the weekend data theft, 533 data have been exposed.313,128 Facebook users that include mobile phone numbers, name, gender, location, marital status, occupation, date of birth and email addresses, so we are facing an extremely serious event and the security of our account should not be overlooked.

The problem is that in this service we can only carry out searches by email and not by telephone, an element of which have seen leaked In that case, just Google a little and you will find the file in plain text where you can search by phone number to check the security of your account.

It is not the first time that Facebook has been involved in controversy, but this time the volume of leaked data has caused scandal and alarm among many users .