Justin Sullivan/Getty Facebook announced in a blog post Wednesday that it will disable its search feature that allows users to be found based on a phone number or an email address. The company said users' information may have been scraped by malicious actors who used this feature. Here's how to put your profile on lock down to limit public access to your information. Facebook delivered some worrisome news to its 2 billion users on Wednesday: Most people who use the social network might have had their public profile "scraped" by "malicious actors." What exactly is your public profile information?