Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
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#2Facebook posting: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/update-on-security-issu...
Check if you are affected here: https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice
(posting because it took 10+ mins to find it - many media outlets are not linking directly to it)
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#3Should it not be "Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data of 14 Million People from Facebook" ?
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#4Title says 14M people but Facebook's notice says this:
>We have now determined that attackers used access tokens to gain unauthorized access to account information from approximately 30 million Facebook accounts.
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#5That's one of the numerous reasons I'll never use fb as a payment or ecommerce platform when they launch these products.
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#6This is why I hate not having custom security questions from Banks. What is my fathers middle name? Well, if you have facebook and he puts it up there you can find out. I have no control over that.
I could start using fake answers but trying to remember the fake answers vs real answers is tough. Whereas when I get a custom question I have a custom answer that I will always remember. Such as made up on the spot Name of the babysitter with curly finger nails. I remember that and no one can figure it out based on the internet.
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#7Should it not be "Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data of 14 Million People from Facebook" ?
Exactly this. Please forgive me reposting an old comment[0]:
This sort of victim blaming is all too common in the mainstream press:
IRS Says More Taxpayers May Have Been Hacked http://time.com/4000659/irs-taxpayer-hacked-cybercrime/
It wasn't the taxpayers that were hacked - it was the IRS.
Hackers stole personal information from 104,000 taxpayers, IRS says https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/05/2...
Hackers did not steal personal information from 104,000 taxpayers - they stole it from the IRS.
Smaller media outlets often get it right:
Over 700,000 People Got Screwed in Last Year's IRS Data Breach http://gizmodo.com/over-700-000-people-got-screwed-in-last-y...
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#8This is why I hate not having custom security questions from Banks. What is my fathers middle name? Well, if you have facebook and he puts it up there you can find out. I have no control over that. I could start using fake answers but trying to remember the fake answers vs real answers is tough. Whereas when I get a custom question I have a custom answer that I will always remember. Such as made up on the spot Name o…
I use KeePass for password management and the way I handle this is I generate a random string for each security question answer, then just include it in the Notes field of the entry.
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#9That's one of the numerous reasons I'll never use fb as a payment or ecommerce platform when they launch these products.
I doubt other payment or ecommerce platforms are any more secure. Given its size, I assume Facebook has a lot of smart people working on security. And they still screw it up. How are smaller platforms, who can't attract or pay for the very best talent, going to do any better (other than by being smaller targets, I guess)?
Re: Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
#10Should it not be "Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data of 14 Million People from Facebook" ?
Exactly this. Please forgive me reposting an old comment[0]: This sort of victim blaming is all too common in the mainstream press: IRS Says More Taxpayers May Have Been Hacked http://time.com/4000659/irs-taxpayer-hacked-cybercrime/ It wasn't the taxpayers that were hacked - it was the IRS. Hackers stole personal information from 104,000 taxpayers, IRS says https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/05/2…
I guess directly mentioning the user makes it sounds more personal, and click-worthy