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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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

lostlogin wrote: post #381
lotsofpulp wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t find any Facebook resource that says I can buy data, or any other reputable source that reports Facebook is selling details about people. Can you provide any?

https://theatlantic.com/article/578599/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/facebook-d... This one is interesting and refutes the argument you are making “When the company argues that it is not selling data, but rather selling targeted advertising, it’s luring you into a semantic trap, encouraging you to imagine that the only way of selling data is to send ad…

There’s no trap. We’re simply using different definitions of “data” or “personal data”.

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

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Post by HNfriend234 »

impostervt wrote: post #40

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ I've been pwned 33 times. At this point, it's just noise. My passwords are all unique (password manager). Honest question - What should I worry about?

Identity theft and harassment. If you say anything politically that other people don't agree with then you could become a victim of violence.

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

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Post by devenblake »

userbinator wrote: post #369
devenblake wrote: post #364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty_Krab Probably SpongeBob fans.

I wouldn't call any of them SpongeBob "fans". We did grow up with SpongeBob though and SpongeBob is a common subject for Internet memes, so that might be it.

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

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Post by CRConrad »

edoceo wrote: post #400
kaminar wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it that NOBODY mentions suing FB for this, the single largest data breach/leak in history? Are they to be let off with zero accountability? Nerds and geeks of ycombinator, pls let us know how you feel.

Couldadone w/o the name calling. Generally frowned upon, site guidelines and all

Probably used more as an honorific.

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

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Post by dktalks »

neogodless wrote: post #197
tyingq wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Is there a trustworthy phone number version of https://haveibeenpwned.com ?" An "exact" google search excluding adjacent phone numbers seems to work well for my numbers, and culls a lot (not all) of the autogen pages. So if your number was 212-555-1239, search Google with these strings: "(212)555-1239" -1240 -1238 "212-555-1239" -1240 -1238

Dear god, fastpeoplesearch.com is a horribly obnoxious treasure trove of information.

This is just one of the websites. Here is a list of all the websites which have your information with easy links to opt-out from them.

I do not maintain this but don't know where I got this from, however I have notifications when this spreadsheets gets updated to remove my information from another website

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10wzyKEl-fAxjCD42u9HQ...

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

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Post by syockit »

lostlogin wrote: post #381
lotsofpulp wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t find any Facebook resource that says I can buy data, or any other reputable source that reports Facebook is selling details about people. Can you provide any?

https://theatlantic.com/article/578599/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/facebook-d... This one is interesting and refutes the argument you are making “When the company argues that it is not selling data, but rather selling targeted advertising, it’s luring you into a semantic trap, encouraging you to imagine that the only way of selling data is to send ad…

The opposing view is that the leaked data is only valid up to the time of the leak, and there is no guarantee it doesn't go stale, while Facebook has the fresh data.

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

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Post by riphdd2020 »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #358
r721 wrote: post #124

Liz Bourgeois, @Facebook comms: >This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019. https://twitter.com/Liz_Shepherd/status/1378398011747938305

It's not "old data" it's our data and Liz is a fucking idiot. They lost a total of 533 Million peoples. The company should be shut down and management yeeted into the sun.

Somebody needs to start contacting the US politicians whose private numbers are in this leak. There must be a few?

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

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Post by syockit »

cblconfederate wrote: post #67
timdaub wrote: post #33

Great, and while you can get sued into oblivion for downloading a Metallica album, all our personal data is downloadable from a public website for 3€. Like for real, it took me 2mins to find the leak myself...

At this point i don't see why only facebook and the thieves should have access to this data. If the data is public it loses its value

The only way the data can lose value is when everyone in the list change their numbers. If making it public drives them to do that, then good, but the inertia to do that is so big that I doubt most would. Spammers and marketers don't care if the list is being used by competitors, so the value of the data as spam target is also not reduced by making it public.

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

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Post by _xnmx »

153791098c wrote: post #289
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #16

Would like to know if non Facebook users are included because Facebook has non Facebook user's phone numbers due to the fact that Whatsapp uploads the entire phonebook to Whatsapp. That means Facebook is likely to know your phone number although you don't use Facebook or Whatsapp.

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…

> 99+% of every single person you meet has either FB, IG or WA installed on their phones and shares their phonebooks with them

citation very much needed

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