How to check if your Facebook account was hacked in the massive breach

News broke out over the weekend that more than 533 million Facebook accounts were compromised, with hackers stealing personal information that included phone numbers, emails, and more sensitive data. However, this isn’t a new hack. The attackers stole the data back in August 2019, and the hack made the news a few times. Before this weekend’s revelation, we last mentioned the massive Facebook hack back in mid-January when hackers were selling access to the data via Telegram. Specifically, hackers would let anyone attempt to find out either the Facebook ID or phone number of a user impacted by the hack.

An unexpected development made the old Facebook hack resurface yet again. The database has now been posted in the wild, giving everyone free access to all that sensitive info. Facebook responded to the hack in the worst possible way, saying that the hack is “old data” that Facebook found and fixed. This might be so, but it doesn’t change the fact that someone stole that information and that the data is now available to the public. Many of those 533 million people might still have the same phone numbers and Facebook IDs, information that other people with malicious intentions can use for nefarious purposes. The good news is that you can easily check if your Facebook account was included in this massive hack of 533 million Facebook accounts.