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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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> Sender can be spoofed Is this worldwide or US? I for now trust the senderid and assume them to be valid if they are coming from bank etc. I also haven't heard of anyone spoofing SMS. Should I be more cautious?

> Is this worldwide or US? Worldwide. SMS is just like e-mail, you can put anything you want in the sender field. You should absolutely not trust SMS.

Are there Android apps for that?

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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It's kind of an edge case since the breach happened before GDPR enforcement started.

GDPR was enforceable from 25th May 2018. Leak dates to 2019 from the news sources I've seen.

I could've sworn it became enforceable later but apparently I've lost all sense of time.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Utile the does the EU does notify them, which would be really funny tbh. Just imagine getting a SMS (chain): > You phone number and some of your data ( ) had been involved into a Facebook data breach. While Facebook is required by to inform you about this breach they insists of not complying with the law and keeping they users in the dark. As such we decided to do so. More information can be found here:

EU will not notify them, since EU doesn't have technical tools and legal framework to do it. If DPA finds Facebook in breach of GDPR they will be ordered to do it with additional fines for non complying. Art. 58 GDPR Powers point 2: > Each supervisory authority shall have all of the following corrective powers: > (e) to order the controller to communicate a personal data breach to the data subject; > (f) to impose a…

Literally anyone with a fist of dollars and minimal dev knowledge access can parse those leaked numbers, send mass text via API and damage facebook even more than they would damage themselves.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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> Is this worldwide or US? Worldwide. SMS is just like e-mail, you can put anything you want in the sender field. You should absolutely not trust SMS.

Are there Android apps for that?

Hushsms is one, but requires Xposed Framework.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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EU will not notify them, since EU doesn't have technical tools and legal framework to do it. If DPA finds Facebook in breach of GDPR they will be ordered to do it with additional fines for non complying. Art. 58 GDPR Powers point 2: > Each supervisory authority shall have all of the following corrective powers: > (e) to order the controller to communicate a personal data breach to the data subject; > (f) to impose a…

Literally anyone with a fist of dollars and minimal dev knowledge access can parse those leaked numbers, send mass text via API and damage facebook even more than they would damage themselves.

It does not mean that EU can or wants to do it.

Actually, the processing of this data itself is probably a breach of GDPR.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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The "real names" myth was the biggest scam played against people in the past 15 years. The media are also wholesale responsible for perpetuating that damaging trend. Historians of the future will look at the past 2 decades with disbelief.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Are there Android apps for that?

Hushsms is one, but requires Xposed Framework.

Does that let you spoof sender address on any phone? I was under the impression that you had to create an account with a SIP provide to do that.

(Btw a Google search for "Hushsms" results in shady/cancerous app stores that all seem to mirror each other. Where is the official website/thread?)

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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The "real names" myth was the biggest scam played against people in the past 15 years. The media are also wholesale responsible for perpetuating that damaging trend. Historians of the future will look at the past 2 decades with disbelief.

What's the 'real names' myth?

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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If you change your DoB every year like I do, you'll be fine...

Assuming not sarcasm, how does that help? Do you do this for just Facebook or for multiple websites?

I use a random DoB for every website.

(The only exception is banks because it has to match what's on my ID and credit report)

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