533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

Post by ZephyrBlu » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 11:20 PM UTC

djhn wrote: post #331

153791098c wrote: post #289

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It goes so much further than this and it is absolutely frighting. The following sketched situations applies if you don't use Facebook at ALL. 99+% of every single person you meet has either FB, IG or WA installed on their phones and shares their phonebooks with them (assuming you live in [insert western country here]). There is also a very big chance at least some have your full name and address in their phonebook. F…

As a counterpoint I can think of dozens of personal acquaintances who are happily non-users and never interact with Facebook properties (retirees not into tech, busy executives, to cool for Facebook hipsters). If your country or social circle doesn't use WhatsApp, Facebook itself is already dying and Instagram is getting their lunch eaten by Tiktok.

Post by Daviey » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 11:22 PM UTC

nly wrote: post #341

Daviey wrote: post #252

Somewhat ironically, Mark Zuckerberg (and 2 other FB founders) are in the dataset - along with phone numbers. Hopefully this disaster will be the catalyst for better data privacy controls.

What Facebook user id is Mark? Is it #1?

  - Mark Zuckerberg is 4: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4
  - Chris Hughes is 5: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5
  - Dustin Moskovitz is 6: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6

Post by dr_kiszonka » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 11:26 PM UTC

banana_giraffe wrote: post #285

uyt wrote: post #284

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Can you link me to where you found the data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26682774

Post by nonameiguess » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 11:28 PM UTC

flas9sd wrote: post #262

antibland wrote: post #107

I’m curious about the pool of Facebook users who seldom use the product, retaining it solely for groups and to keep in touch with family. Will this event loosen that final brick and drive these users to delete their accounts?

"keep in touch with family" can be subsumed by chat apps. But for discussion groups and special interests, facebook is still the most accessible site to run (small) groups in, or am I mistaken?

Post by userbinator » Sat, Apr 03, 2021, 11:33 PM UTC

devenblake wrote: post #364

banana_giraffe wrote: post #272

Looking 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-a…

Teens like to say they work at the Krusty Krab for some reason. No clue why but when I had Facebook I saw it a lot on peers' accounts.