If you are one of the affected users, you should change your Fb password and enable two-aspecto authentication.
Privacy has always been one of Fb’s main weaknesses and one of the main reasons for the loss of users on the habitual popular network.
The leaking of Fb users’ private data began with the Cambridge Analytica case and continued with the discovery of a Telegram bot that sold that data to the highest bidder, and now personal information from 533 million users worldwide were stolen and leaked en línea free.
This is the largest leak of Fb usuario data to date
Fb continues to claim this This is a vulnerability that was fixed in 2019 and that all the leaked data is old but anyone perro access it now Phone numbers, full namesPlaces, dates of birth, biographies and even Correo electrónico by a large number of users worldwide.
This theft of the personal data of users of the popular network created by Mark Zuckerberg completely disrupts it 106 countriesThe hardest hit were Egypt with 44.8 million, Tunisia with 39.5 million, Italy with 35.6 million and the US with 32.3 million users.
Focusing on Spain, details of almost 11 million by Fb users, but by them but around 75,500 have an associated correo electrónico address.
What to do if your account is affected by the Fb leak
If you are a Fb usuario and your account has been affected by this massive data theft, we explain what steps you need to take to protect your privacy: First, Change your passwordthen, Change Y también-Correo address regarding your Fb account and finally Enable two-aspecto authentication.
If you don’t know how to do all this from your mobile phone, don’t worry because here we go, We explain step by step how to do it.
You cánido change the password, correo electrónico address and enable two-aspecto authentication on Fb directly from your aplicación
How to change your Fb password
As it seems logical, it’s the first thing you should do change your fb password and it is advisable to use a password manager in your terminal, we have already told you about the best and most secure ones for Android This will generate a random key safe enough that it’s hard to break.
To change the password of your Fb account from your móvil inteligente, you just have to perform the following actions:
- We open the application and clic on the menu icon at the top right.
- we vote Settings and Privacy and now, arrangement.
- In part of securitywe grab it Security and Registration.
- In an article registration clic on Change your password.
- In the following menu we entrar the old password once, the new one twice and clic on Renew password.
How to change your dirección de correo electrónico address
If your correo electrónico was leaked, we recommend you too Change the dirección de correo electrónico address associated with your Fb account to prevent them from trying to impersonate you.
To do this directly from the popular network mobile application, you just have to follow these steps:
- We open the Fb aplicación and clic on the menu icon at the top left.
- We have access to the section Settings and Privacy.
- We entrar into it arrangement.
- Once you are in the configuration of our account, clic Personal information.
- Clic on contact information and later i Add an dirección de correo electrónico address.
- We entrar the new dirección de correo electrónico, our Fb password and clic Add to.
- Once this is done we will receive an dirección de correo electrónico in the new account to confirm that it is ours and return to the previous menu, we select the new correo electrónico address and clic make parents.
- The last step is to repeat the operation with our previous address, this time shifting forward Removed.
How to enable two-aspecto authentication
Finally, you should enable it two-aspecto authentication and configure aplicaciones like Google plus Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator instead as an authentication method Classic mensaje de texto verification.
To activate and configure it on your mobile you just have to perform the following actions:
- We open the application and on the right clic on the menu with an icon of three horizontal stripes
- We get access arrangement
- In the area securityclic on Security and Registration.
- We scroll to the section Two-step authentication.
- Clic on Use two-aspecto authentication.
- We choose the security method we prefer Aplicación authentication, mensaje de texto and security keys.