Yup - there's another thread related to this breach. A comment led me to do a google search on my phone number.
I found FastPeopleSearch.com, which not only had my current phone number and physical address, but my previous cell phone number, land lines (from back when those were a thing), my Vonage phone number, and previous addresses, all dating about 20 years. If you know my name, you can get a lot more... thanks to these aggregators of public records.
You can attempt to have yourself removed but there are a lot of these types of sites.
Of course, if you take "a" phone number, and use the google search technique, you'll find one of those sites like FastPeopleSearch and learn a lot more about who the phone number belongs to. But presumably anyone who's trying to make use of all this information could do all that without the Facebook breach, if they automate the process.
Of course, the Facebook breach ties a bunch of information to a phone number in a, perhaps, tidy package?
I found FastPeopleSearch.com, which not only had my current phone number and physical address, but my previous cell phone number, land lines (from back when those were a thing), my Vonage phone number, and previous addresses, all dating about 20 years. If you know my name, you can get a lot more... thanks to these aggregators of public records.
You can attempt to have yourself removed but there are a lot of these types of sites.
Of course, if you take "a" phone number, and use the google search technique, you'll find one of those sites like FastPeopleSearch and learn a lot more about who the phone number belongs to. But presumably anyone who's trying to make use of all this information could do all that without the Facebook breach, if they automate the process.
Of course, the Facebook breach ties a bunch of information to a phone number in a, perhaps, tidy package?