Was My Phone Number Leaked?

Enter your (UK only) mobile number below and hit Check to find out if your phone number appears in the leak of 11,522,326 UK Facebook user's details.

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FAQs

The data appears to have come from a 2019 leak from Facebook. If you don't remember that leak, that's probably because it doesn't appear that Facebook notified affected users at the time. The leak comprises the data of over 533 million users, of which over 11 million are from the UK. This data has previously been for sale on hacker forums, but on the 3rd of April 2021 it was released for free, which hugely increases the number of people who have access to this data. This site checks if your phone number was included in that leak if you have a UK mobile number. The fact that it is "old" data is not a mitigating factor when the data includes information that does not frequently (or ever) change, like your phone number or date of birth.

The data that was leaked is messy and incomplete in many cases. If your phone number was leaked, some or all of the following data may have leaked alongside it: your full name, your location, your job and where you work, and your date of birth. In a small number of cases, the email address you use for Facebook may also be included.

This site doesn't collect or store your phone number. It performs a process called "hashing" where it generates a mathematical representation of your number and checks for the presence or absence of that in the leaked data. Your actual phone number is not recoverable from the hashed version.

The main thing is to be more vigilant and alert to texts or phone calls that could be scams. Scammers will inevitably use this data to personalise texts or calls in an attempt to make you fall for them. If you get a call or text from someone who knows information about you, remember that the information could simply have been taken from this leak.