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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by ianamartin »

reaperducer wrote: post #155
laken wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the journalism world, pre-written articles are apparently quite common. I assume they had a boilerplate already for the next Facebook controversy, and just wrote 2-3 opening paragraphs that were relevant for this one. CNN many years ago accidentally left some of their pre-written obituaries for (living) world figures publically accessible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries#T...

In the journalism world, pre-written articles are apparently quite common. Actually, not "common" at all. Obituaries for famous people are often done in advance, since everyone dies. It used to be one of the things that young journalists/interns did to cut their teeth. But not every company has a massive security breach, so this was not pre-written. It's not uncommon for big companies to fax (yes, fax) bad news to ne…

Welp, this sounds like a pretty bad practice. If there's one thing that journalists can count on, it's that famous companies are going to have a data breach.

You should probably get on that.

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Post by Symbiote »

mtrn wrote: post #383
Globz wrote: post #333

What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? If you heard about the NCIX story where they basically abandoned their servers filled with users data (over 13 years of data) and someone scooped them up and tried to resell them on the black market, one could think that a similar fate is possible. source : https://www.privacyfly.com/articles/ncix_breach/ Obviously if Facebook wa…

> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the company tomorrow and put a facebook.tar.xz of everything they collected on archive.org or somewhere else.

If they did that with any European data, they would soon face criminal charges.

(Except if a European office of Facebook did it, then the nationality doesn't matter.)

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Post by 0xmohit »

briandear wrote: post #490
0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

Code formatting makes your comment unreadable on mobile. Any chance one could simply use “>” like everyone else does?

Thanks, didn't know that.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by ianamartin »

Globz wrote: post #333

What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? If you heard about the NCIX story where they basically abandoned their servers filled with users data (over 13 years of data) and someone scooped them up and tried to resell them on the black market, one could think that a similar fate is possible. source : https://www.privacyfly.com/articles/ncix_breach/ Obviously if Facebook wa…

Facebook as a company will never die. It's too diversified. Facebook as a product will die in the next 10 years.

And it won't matter because the data will be rolled over to drive ads on Instagram and Snap and other attention-properties.

Facebook is the IBM of social media. It's too big to die, and too big to do anything good.

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Post by bedivere »

chrdlu wrote: post #547

My girlfriend and I experienced a really weird bug in the past. We would see that Facebook said we were active in the middle of the night when we were definitely asleep. It didn't make too much sense then, but now its possible that those instances might have occurred due to someone else accessing our accounts? Both of our accounts were logged out. Did anyone else experience anything like that?

friend, I might have some bad news for you...

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Post by omgtehlion »

genericone wrote: post #327
Xyik wrote: post #281

Its sad that everytime there is a post about Facebook the comments are extremely toxic and negative, and don't really even discuss the article itself. I would argue that 80% of all tech companies are doing close to 0 in making the world a 'better place'.

Facebook's goal: Connect all the people Google's goal: Organize all the information Amazon's goal: Sell all the merchandise ----------- Taken at face value, all those companies were/are all trying to make the world a better place in the ways available to them. But when the externalities of those goals affect other people, they will become hated. Everyone has a different opinion of what 'better' means. Since giant com…

Facebook's goal: sell ads

Google's goal: sell more ads

Amazon's goal: Sell all the merchandise... and ads

FTFY

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Post by Xylakant »

apatters wrote: post #568
cheeze wrote: post #549

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Probably less chance you get caught up in any kind of breach -- it's too obscure to be a target, plus the code is open source so many eyes on it, etc. Security through obscurity... Open source != secure. I can guarantee that a hell of a lot more folks with a lot of security expertise have combed through the fb codebase than Mastodon.

>Security through obscurity... ...is not a solution by itself but is a perfectly valid part of a defense in depth strategy, for example running SSH on a port other than the default is a common and good practice. > I can guarantee that a hell of a lot more folks with a lot of security expertise have combed through the fb codebase than Mastodon. This is the same argument Microsoft always made in defense of Windows secu…

>>Security through obscurity... > ...is not a solution by itself but is a perfectly valid part of a defense in depth strategy, for example running SSH on a port other than the default is a common and good practice.

This really depends on what kind of target you are. Are you a random person on the internet? Then making yourself a smaller target by using obscure services might help. Are you someone with sufficient value for a spear phishing attack? Not so much. “Sufficient value” might just be “you slighted the wrong person on the internet.”

There’s also a lot of trade offs involved, some of them less than obvious. For example mastodon servers may be run by a person/team who’s trustworthiness rating is harder to evaluate Tran facebooks. The server you’re on might by run by well-meaning but incompetent people. The server you’re on might have one participant that is a target of sufficient value for spear phishing and your data might be taken and leaked just to obscure the real target.

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Post by humanbeinc »

Was affected by this. Hacker used the token to run rogue Ads on my business manager account.

They were pretty clever, because they used proxies in my region so facebook wouldnt send me automatic warnings.

I can only encourage everyone to check their running Ads & campaigns and check the audit history log at business.facebook.com asap!

Facebook support sucks (also for business users) so dont expect to get your money back.

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