Anyone here still do FB?
An absolute goldmine for identity thieves was released to the web by a hack into the Facebook database. Business Insider is reporting the personal information from 533 million Facebook users was hacked including: 32+ million records on U.S. with their “phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, & email addresses.”
Just a headsup. :)
i read they make shadow profiles for you if you don't have an account
It's not a shadow account but a shadow profile, the difference is the profile isn't active and is just sections in a database.
Not that it's any better either way.
Shit company that has been a net negative to the freedom and privacy of our world.
Unfortunately that's not true.
What's Facebook anyway? 😷
The news used to care about hacks in 2007. Now no one blinks an eye. No legal repercussions. Life goes on and the status quo survives.
…it's almost like all mainstream news are all in lockstep with each other and working against the people. 🤔
My life isn't worth stealing unfortunately
Correct, but your data- now that’s a different story.
Damn, they going to have access to all my fake names I used. Jack Mehoff is in trouble now.
Plot twist: they know all your fake names and attached them to your real name.
Mark (profanity)
How is Hunt profane?
So everytime stalkerbook gets mentioned, everyone 'na dont use it never used it….'..this is on all forums
How Many People Use Facebook? 2.80 billion
Someone must use it…
Maybe they're all bots? :)
it would explain a lot :D
Close. NPCs.
there might be a lot of people like me who have a long abandoned account or deactivated but not deleted account?
I've never used stalker, is there a difference in deactivated and deleted?
deactivated you can if you change your mind later reactivate and everything comes back. so it's like hiding the account in stalker's memory hole. people expect everything to be retained in case they want their account back.
deleted you can't do that. you are deleting most of it from any user's access ever again. and people expect that everything is deleted from stalker's memory hole.
but is it?
i wonder if this hack included deactivated accounts? or 'deleted' accounts?
mine is just abandoned (for a good decade or so), so do i assume mine would be part of it?
Is an interesting thread on it on twitter from the HaveiBeenPwned site owner. https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1378600588993208330
Data contains: phone,uid,email,first_name,last_name,gender,date_registered,birthday,location,hometown,relationship_status,education_last_year,work,groups,pages,last_update,creation_time
Most of the above info on my account is blank. :)
Doesn't really seem like the true number is 500+million or anywhere near that but who knows it may change tomorrow or something.
The current public leak on the forum doesn't include Australian data, the zip with the "Australian" data (if it were a typo for Australia) is for Austria funnily enough: https://i.imgur.com/W7TMd5r.png
Oops. Perhaps get away for now, unless they correct their mistake :)
Yeah I was confused until I saw people's addresses in the IO.
This year the Australian government, in the form of a national census, will ask us to put lots of extremely personal information into their database and then trust they won't leak it.
The Australian government will contract out that information collection and storage to the cheapest global bidder and blindly trust they won't leak it.
The lowest bidder will hire out staff at the lowest possible price and trust them to build the systems and analyse the information and blindly trust they won't leak it.
I don't have much faith in modern companies or governments to handle my data securely. The less they hold about you the better.
Bang on. And the federal liberals government are atrocious at running IT projects.
Robodebt or the COVID app for example.
Hopefully this one won't lead anyone to suicide.
Not atrocious, likely bribed. Turnbull was personally invested in Fiber, still sells copper to Australia when he was PM.
The LNP are smart business rich people that inherited the money.
Then the fun part that as a political party they are exempt from privacy laws and therefore the notifiable data breech rules so they don't even have to tell us if when it gets leaked :)
Australian government: “eVeRyOnE nEeDz To pUt ThEiR pAsSpOrT oR dRiVeRz LiCeNcE iNtO FaRtBoOk tO StOp CyBeRBuLLyiNg…”
Great idea… and if this hack happened post that great epiphany, the bullies would now have email addresses, phone numbers and personal details of their targets. What the government needs to be doing is firming up our privacy rights exactly because of this kind of shit that gets hacked…
Maybe Fartbook can take a leaf from cashback and just give us all a $3 voucher…
As if we didn’t know this was going to happen. Only going to get worse across the board….just wait until the banks get done over…..Bitcoin will really go off then.
I used FB when daughter was overseas. Now, it won't recognize when I change the stupid PW! F-Zuckerberg. Sociopath (profanity).
I made a MeWe acct. I'm getting out of FB. Sick of these sociopath people like Zuck/Bezos/Gates/Musk. F-them, seriously….
Zuck FB 1.0> most (profanity) girls on campus.
Now: clueless think he's a good guy, when in fact, he's scum.
No FB no worries.