The Security Checkup gives you an overview of the devices connected to your Google account, recent login activity,
your recovery email address and phone numbers, account permissions across websites and services, app passwords, and two - factor authentication settings.
Not exact matches
However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery.
Search
and Account
Recovery: Until today, people could enter another person's
phone number or
email address into Facebook search to help find them.
The people doing the scraping used account
recovery and search tools that let users look people up by
phone numbers and email addresses, then took information from profiles.
Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery.
Facebook also said «malicious actors» have been scraping public profiles via its search
and account
recovery feature, a tool that allowed users to find people by entering their
phone number or
email address.
However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery.
In addition to changing how it works with connected apps, Facebook has also changed how its «search account
and recovery» feature works, which lets people search for users by
phone number or
email address.
Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery.
«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery,» he added.
On users having their public info scraped: Facebook announced this morning that «we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped» via its search by
phone number or
email address feature
and account
recovery system.
«However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery,» says the post.
Chief technology officer Mike Shroepfer, who wrote the update, said this was because «malicious actors» had «abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting
phone numbers or
email addresses they already have through search
and account
recovery».
Facebook's search
and account
recovery feature allows searches for users based on a
phone number or
email address.