Data on over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a hacking-related forum, enabling cybercriminals advertisers to target users.

It’s probably that the recent #facebookdown is part of this.

  • vis4valentine
    12·
    3 years ago

    It’s very creepy that a fraction of humanity info gets leaked. It’s more people than the population of China.

    • PandaCoderPL
      2·
      3 years ago

      Consider switching to Session because they have no informations to leak.

  • MarcellusDrum
    12·
    3 years ago

    While innocent people getting doxed is obviously a bad thing, I hope this would be a fatal blow to Facebook.

  • Matheo_bis
    10·
    3 years ago

    Wait a minute, isn’t 1.5B accounts like 75% of all accounts?

    EDDIT: it’s not 75%, but 50% of all accounts. WE HAVE A SNAPPING BOYS

    • PandaCoderPL
      3·
      3 years ago

      Doesn’t matter if it’s 75%, 50% or even 1%, in terms of Facebook accounts it’s still big number of people.

  • the_tech_beast
    8·
    3 years ago

    Facebook is worse when it comes to privacy and security as we all know.

    IMO google is better with security.

    Facebook still probably stores their users passwords in plaintext

    • dinomugOP
      4·
      3 years ago

      Facebook still probably stores their users passwords in plaintext

      and the same password for everything 🤣 .

    • nVZWmCa67Tq0SQkXPR
      3·
      3 years ago

      Google has an alright security but they’re absolutely atrocious when it comes to privacy. Now even making an account on gmail requires you to give away your phone number.

    • Sr Estegosaurio
      1·
      3 years ago

      They both are cringy about privacy. But I think that I agree. As I said in other comment I hear a lot of data leaks problems with facebook lately.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    4·
    3 years ago

    It’s alleged that the data was obtained by scraping publicly available data shared by users. Several media outlets and Twitter users misinterpret this to have resulted due to a hack or data breach, which is not the case.

    Well then, the people will surely learn from this, like the last few times this happened 🤡