Is this hearsay or is there proof? Aside from @danny saying it was from an fb employee, there’s nothing else to indicate it was, and I wouldn’t trust the word of a hacker/recipient of a hacked account.
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#13Sadly companies like google, facebook only HN is the way to get resolution. Nobody cares about you. They look into it only when it affects PR.
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#14Does the new owner of the account have access to his previous messages? I wonder how this would play out with GDPR if the original owner was from the EU.
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#15There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
That depends if the Authenticator was used or normal SMS messages.
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#16I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here, just "codes of conduct" that companies and users both willfully ignore.
If your handle gets sold by some facebook employee to a rich kid in LA, what recourse do you have? I don't know what laws this would break (maybe some broad definition of fraud? I Am Not A Lawyer) so it's not like this person has a slam dunk legal case...
We have no external arbiters of online interaction, no well-respected third party we can go to to arbitrate. The last defense is the mob, potentially shaming the companies in question into recanting. I've seen it happen on this very website multiple times. But it is not sustainable, it does not scale, and it allows the companies to keep fucking with people who can't make their injustices known.
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#17It's sad and upsetting, but when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? Their model simply does not factor in the worries of a single user. (Worse is how they want to propagate the idea that software should be free and of highest quality, thus preventing any communal attempts at creating different models.) I advice everyone who has an account to at least download thei…
I’ve read somewhere that Facebook even embeds tracking pixels in the HTML of the data export, so keep this in mind if you ever actually look at the exported data.
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#18could be phished fb employee's account like it was in twitter bitcoin case?
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#19If true, this is despicable and deserves a lot of attention and (maybe) some regulatory response. However, is there a more detailed description instead of a few twits.
It seems from the posted pictures that the account was stolen, but why does the author think that a Facebook employee or a Facebook company is behind it? An honest question.
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#20Shocking behavior from the most immoral company on the Internet. What can be done about this?
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