Just type in a few character of your last name in the search box and it will show you a paginated list of all Facebook members that share the same last name.

So how do you find people who share the same last name (or surname) as you? Well, use Facebook.įacebook has a Family search option that lets you search Facebook members by their family name.

Now imagine if he gets to meet another person with the same “rare” surname, chances are that the other person is also from the same village. I met someone the other day with a very unique surname - he told me that his surname was same as the name of the village where he was born and that everyone in the village shared the same last name. Now the data set has been posted on the hacking forum for free, making it available to anyone with rudimentary data skills.The last name (also called surname or family name) of a person can not just indicate the family to which a person belongs but, depending on the culture, these names may also denote geographic region, occupation and sometimes religion of that person. Motherboard reported on that bot's existence at the time and verified that the data was legitimate.

Gal discovered the leaked data in January when a user in the same hacking forum advertised an automated bot that could provide phone numbers for hundreds of millions of Facebook users for a price. 'A database of that size containing the private information such as phone numbers of a lot of Facebook's users would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social-engineering attacks hacking attempts,' Gal told Insider. While it's a couple of years old, the leaked data could prove valuable to cybercriminals who use people's personal information to impersonate them or scam them into handing over login credentials, according to Alon Gal, the chief technology officer of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, who discovered the trough of leaked data on Saturday.

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