Cyber safety: Avoid putting phone number on Facebook

[Priyanka]

Beware! If you put your phone number on your Facebook profile, anybody can then find your details and location by just typing the number in Facebook search bar despite your privacy settings -- and your details could be misused by cyber criminals. Reza Moaiandin, technical director of Salt.agency, used a coding script to generate every possible number combination in Britain, US and Canada, Daily Mail reported. He then sent millions of numbers to Facebook's app-building programme (API) in bulk. In return, he received millions of unobstructed personal profiles.