How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack (recode.net) 36
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Recode: Hackers stole personal data from 29 million Facebook users in a recent hack, including information like phone numbers, emails, gender, hometowns and even relationship data. Was your data stolen? (Mine was.) There's an easy way to check. Visit this Help Center page on Facebook's website and log in to your account. It will tell you whether or not your data was stolen, and which data in particular. Worth noting, while Facebook's alert says that no "payment card or credit card information" was stolen, Facebook product executive Guy Rosen did say that hackers would have been able to see the last four digits of a user's credit card through this hack. Facebook also says it will reach out to people directly if their data was stolen.
They can have it. (Score:1)
It's fake. All fake. How stupid do you think I am?
Wrong term (Score:2)
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So they blame "hackers" with "hacks", both terms that mean diddly squat these days.
"We couldn't help it, guv, honest! It was those pesky bogeymen from the cyber spaces!"
Well yes, hackers share in the blame. Facebook will sell to anyone.
Not mine (Score:3)
No Facebook means no Facebook problem....
Re: Not mine (Score:1)
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The worst part (Score:2)
is that you have to log into bookface to see if your account has been "exposed" A couple years of not logging in wasted. Now it's Day 0 again...
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The difference is he still goes to parties while other people are too busy updating their Facebook status to "Life of the Party".
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You don't have to log in, actually. I just visited the page, and it told me I wasn't likely affected, presumably by using a local cookie. I'm pretty sure it's been months since I last logged in.
I already know. (I think.) (Score:2)
(twitter, too, but the meme is no good without the hashtag). Why hasn't the terminology morphed into anti-social networking?
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How about, "I ditched FB *five* years ago"?
I don't claim any moral superiority from that, merely a huge sense of relief every time one of these stories pops up.
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How about "I'm not a fucking idiot so I never signed up for Facebook in the first place"?
I don't claim any relief from that, merely a huge sense of moral superiority every time one of these stories pops up.
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"As always, YMMV." The FB that I joined is very likely not much like the one that you didn't, or the one that I later left. At that time, membership was still invitation-only and restricted to Ivy Leaguers, people who worked for "name" software/tech/Web firms (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Intel, Sun, and a few others), and some friends of people who worked at Facebook. Everyone on my Friends list was someone I'd met IRL and/or worked with. A couple of years later, they started letting anybody join, and it wasn
Facebook needs to inform. (Score:2)
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Facebook needs to email everyone at their non-Facebook contact point that they've been hacked.
Why? What is the average person going to do with this information? Would they even care? I asked my sister and my teenage nephew about it... my sister said: "Oh well, my information is already out there, so what if it's out again?". My nephew said "Didn't you notice that I haven't logged on to facebook in like 2 years?"
I don't even know what I'd do with that information - I wouldn't do anything differently whether someone stole my Facebook data or not.
Just went off (Score:2)
About two weeks ago I deleted my FB account. To be able to see if my data, which was proven long ago that FB keeps approximately forever, was stolen I need a FB account. What now?
I ended up checking if the email adress I used was powned at haveIbeenpwned.com.
No account: how to check? (Score:2)
I never had a FB account but I have no doubt that over the years they have stolen/scrapped info about me (remember "shadow accounts"?). How do I check what info about me have they leaked?
It's a rhetorical question. I will assume that "all of it" is the answer and act accordingly. I can see how a "leak" can be used as a ploy to attract more reluctant users.