Facebook has a good database of phone numbers of people who has been signed up. Any person who is going to create an FB account should have a phone number. Facebook allows to search people through this number. Normally if you typed phone number on the find friend bar on facebook it normally search for the person with that number. But it wont works sometimes. Following is a trick for getting around this.
http://m.facebook.com/search/?query=123456789
Here is the magic link for check a person from his number. In this link instead of 123456789 put the phone number with area code.
Ex : If you are going to search for the number 0756654875 which is a Sri Lankan number, Then the value you should put is as follows.
94756654875
Just hit enter after that. If anyone has registered with that number in facebook it will show the person. If you look at the link you will notice this is a link for mobile facebook. The bug was found by Suriya Prakash.
Reference : Fox News. (2017). Facebook lists user phone numbers for all to see. [online] Available at: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/10/facebook-lists-user-phone-numbers-for-all-to-see.html [Accessed 5 Nov. 2017].
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