(Apologies if the link is in the commends already. I can't seem to locate it.)
Where is the list?
533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#272Looking at the leak others have pointed to, there are a surprising number of people working in a particular imaginary company:
sqlite> select company, count(*) as c from usa where length(company) > 0 group by company order by c desc limit 10;
company c
---------------------------------------- ----------
Self-Employed 459119
Facebook 181013
Retired 71210
The Krusty Krab 61550
Hollister Co. 42304
U.S. Army 39682
Stay-at-home parent 33095
Walmart 31600
McDonald's 30792
Student 25326Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#273I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me. How are we still ok with this shit? The sooner we get rid of the cancer that FB is, the better. I didn’t share my contact book with FB apps either. It was probably her—a person in her 70s, not necessarily experienced with tech. The main reason this company exists, or that…
The technology is just creepy. I recently experienced a wtf moment the other day when a friend stopped by and her new bf was in the car. We said hello and they soon left (I sell eggs). Later that day he is being suggested as a possible friend. I have my location services off but Facebook knew somehow.
Or FB knew that this person was your friend's boyfriend and decided to show them as a possibility. You might have even seen them there before and didn't know them and thus ignored them.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you get the data leak, I want to check too.
https://t.me/freedomf0x/12553 I haven't checked the content myself, but this tg channel is usually legit
Thanks. Was just able to verify I'm not affected (deleted my acc years ago), but it's crazy how many of my friends' names plus phone number are on there.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha, that's a good point, but in this case I think it's more trivial than that: she probably shared her contact book with FB or Insta (still, not her fault imho). But, at the same time I've worked with FB SDK which was just one big shit show. It's hard even to describe it without turning a comment into an essay, so I'll pick the two I found somewhat amusing: sending data to FB before the developer could pass user co…
It’s almost certainly just the phone number. Recently Instagram told me that a former business partner of mine had joined and I was surprised to learn that his account was an hair braiding service in Atlanta for women with African lineage (we’re both Canadian men with European ancestors). We figured out that years ago we had taken a business trip there and picked up temporary SIM cards back when Canadian cell phone p…
> It’s a cool thought experiment for nerds and paranoiacs to imagine how you might use relative wi-fi strengths
I'm honored to be called a nerd on HN... I'll ignore the latter ;)
Though while I agree the phone number is absolutely used, I don't think it's the only. Trying to get out ahead of the public's changing privacy tastes is a must for any advertiser that collects social-graph-like data. So strategically, if FB is not doing this, I would pull any FB investments because they aren't trying to do their job.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#276I guess if you use facebook you just deserve all the shit you get. What sucks is that the rest of us have to live with it too. I suppose we shall just keeping waiting for that darn market to correct itself!
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#277I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me. How are we still ok with this shit? The sooner we get rid of the cancer that FB is, the better. I didn’t share my contact book with FB apps either. It was probably her—a person in her 70s, not necessarily experienced with tech. The main reason this company exists, or that…
> I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me. How are we still ok with this shit?
I'm no attorney, but isn't there a doctor-patient confidentiality breach (in the U.S.) if a psychologist/iatrist's rolodex gets Facebooked out to the ad tech bidding systems?
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#278Interesting numbers in the linked tweet in the article. 5M accounts for the Netherlands exposed. Almost 1/3 of the population. Compared to Germany where “only” 6M are leaked, not even 10%.
They've also got Tunisia in the list twice, and the number for the first instance is 39.5M, when the population of Tunisia is not even 12M.
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Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if you can get a VoIP number from a different country (where good regulation means spam is less prevalent) and use that for work calls?
I'm almost 100% sure your employer wouldn't want to make an international call every time they wanted to contact you by phone.
Work uses slack/teams/Webex. One person sends me Signal. No one has ever used telephony, except I use it to call he dial in numbers because my phone audio is better than Bluetooth / virus agent laden laptop displaying ten videos of peoples homes thru vpn.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#280We should start thinking of these breaches in terms of their accumulated impact. It's not the 1990s anymore, where data is difficult to store and networking too slow to move it. We should assume the leaked data doesn't go away; that instead people out there are consolidating Equifax data with Vastaamo data, adding data from Exchange hacks and the Accellion hack, to cross-reference with data from Facebook... it's like…
Honestly sounds like a fun job for future historians. By aggregating all the leaks over a long period, how much of a person can you reconstruct?
For example even though I am using a throwaway account, HN's logs might one day get compromised. So now they can join the IP address to other compromised sites that I was logged into using my usual email. And from my email they already have my name, SSN, address, phone number, usernames, passwords, etc, exposed from prior breaches. But now they know about my shitposts too.