After yesterday's intervention by the Privacy Guarantor on Facebook's data breach, he closes the open source tool 'HaveIBeenFacebooked', which had been set up by two Italians and was used to understand if our data had been stolen.
"HaveIBeenFacebooked temporarily closes as a precautionary measure following the press release from the Privacy Guarantor. We hope to have helped someone", writes on Twitter Marco Aceti, one of the two promoters of the initiative.
#HaveIBeenFacebooked temporarily closes as a precautionary measure following today's press release from the privacy guarantor.
We hope we have helped someone.
Press F in chat.
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- Marco Aceti (@realMarcoBuster) April 6, 2021
Yesterday the Privacy Guarantor asked Facebook "to make immediately available a service that allows all Italian users to check whether their telephone number or email address has been affected by the violation".
In recent days, news has circulated of a violation of 533 million Facebook profiles, 35 million of which are Italian users, dating back to 2019: it had already been made known two months ago, but the news has started to circulate in the last few days because before the database used to be paid, is now available for free