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I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);There never is a break-in where they get 1/3 or 1/2 of the accounts. It has to be nearly all or some much smaller faction. (my own presumption based on the idea nothing large does mere 2 to 3 way replication or partition)
Another possibility is that only one particular system is breached, which wouldn't actually affect all users of a given company. If Facebook were hacked, it's possible that only the ad-buy system is compromised and not their entire user store, for example, thus exposing only people who have purchased ads and not all users.
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If that's the case, I think the bigger news then is that yahoo actually had 3B users!
Nobody ever said they are active users or unique individuals. I know for example I personally created hundreds of accounts on Yahoo! over the years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/business/equifax-breach.h...
Is proper audit capability just not seen as important at these companies?
I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
Here's a bookmarklet I use sometimes: javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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Well I would say close to half of those accounts are duplicate - as in not 1 account per person.
The article mentions this: > The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people have multiple accounts ...
I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
I didn't come up with this trick, but unfortunately I forgot who donated it.
I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
Here's a bookmarklet I use sometimes: javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);