Facebook Compromised

[HuckleberryFun]

Facebook just announced that the personal information of over 50 million accounts has been compromised. I got off Facebook and Twitter 6 years ago just to avoid this kind of thing.
(And your cute cat pics....and your cute kid pics...and your perfect vacation pics...and your rants about x,y,or z...and...and...)
All I can say is:

From the BBC:
Up to 50m Facebook accounts attacked

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[Rickenbacher39]

Gee, I am surprised, aghast even.
Color me dumbfounded.

 

[AMT]

Is this above and beyond what they give away or sell?

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Is this above and beyond what they give away or sell?

Yeah. Hackers bent on nefarious use of your personal info...
as opposed to business bent on nefarious use of your personal info

 

[Flymph]

This doesn't affect me!

 

[BDA.45]

Whats facebook?

 

[bolus]

I'd be more worried about what facebook does with your information than what anyone who stole that information would do with it.

It collects information on people who are not even signed up for it. It sells your phone number that you use for login authorization. It sells your data to other countries to influence elections. If you try to delete your data it might ask you for a photo ID to do it. It will then sell that photo ID information and then still not delete your data. If you have the app on your phone it listens to your phone calls and keeps track of who you call (so it call sell your friend's phone numbers without anyone's knowledge)

All so you can see what some guy you knew in grade school had for breakfast.

 

[WWShooter]

I've got a Facebook account that has no personal data entered and to which I never (and I mean never) post. I never "like" anything for posting on Facebook. However, it does allow me to keep up (passively) with my kids and certain relatives who post there pretty regularly. And If I feel like responding, I use email.

So consider me a Facebook stalker, rather than a Facebook user.

 

[308]

Ohz noze...now everyone will know Rick Benjamin and I are FB friends

 

[albin25]

Shouldn't the headline be....
.... FaceBook shoplifted ?

FaceBook sells the Public's personal data like Department stores sell merchandise....since day ONE!

So what actually happened is, some crooks stuffed people's info down their pants and walked out ...without paying.

 

[DuneHopper]

If you link your cash to FB, well well well, my my my...

 

[Flymph]

Who is to say Facebook was not sinply robbed by a former employee... seems lucrative.