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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sun, 30 September 2018, 18:57:46

Title: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 30 September 2018, 18:57:46

Buahahahahhahaa.. 

50 million accounts compromised, and that's only the current tally.

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: FrostyToast on Sun, 30 September 2018, 19:01:04

Deleted my account, but they'll still have all my data up until then. Rip. I wonder if Facebook likes to store passwords after deletion too

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 30 September 2018, 21:49:05

This is probably a diversionary tactic to draw attention AWAY from the privacy issue which is ongoing, uncorrected, and flat out, they don't want to correct it.. .

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 30 September 2018, 21:50:27

Never had an account.  Never wanted one.

Now really don't want one.

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: Belfong on Sun, 30 September 2018, 22:47:43

Facebook is evil, according to WhatsApp co founder
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: Findecanor on Mon, 01 October 2018, 01:20:47

The only difference between this "hack" and normal operations is that they were not paid.

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: SBJ on Mon, 01 October 2018, 08:28:01

Meh I don't care really.
I haven't posted anything on Facebook for years.
I basically only use it these days to say happy birthday to people.

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: 9999hp on Mon, 01 October 2018, 10:47:58

Deleted my fb some time ago; do they get fined or something for this? I wonder if there ever will be a HIPAA for our information, yea I get that corps might fight it; but it seems like the natural thing to do to incentivize security, but I'm pretty ignorant to how difficult or easy it is to keep your systems secure.

Title: Re: Facebook were hackzed.
Post by: chuckdee on Mon, 01 October 2018, 17:30:58

It wasn't the same as a normal hack- they got tokens from people stupid enough to use FB to login to other sites.  Only affected those that thought that Facebook would be a good candidate for a credentials provider.