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How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack (recode.net)

Posted by BeauHD on from the join-the-club dept.

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.

36 comments

  1. They can have it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It's fake. All fake. How stupid do you think I am?

  2. How to see if your Facebook account was compromise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did you have one? If so, it was.

  3. Wrong term by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1

    The personal data was not stolen. It was sold. This is the way of Facebook.

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    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  4. Not mine by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 2

    No Facebook means no Facebook problem....

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    "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
    1. Re:Not mine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you need Fakedick to get laid, you are one sorry Zuckerberg-level INCEL.

    2. Re: Not mine by BanHammer · · Score: 1

      Save yourself the trouble by not giving it away in the first place!

    3. Re:Not mine by mikeiver1 · · Score: 1

      EXACTLY!

  5. Zuck's cell phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought we could just call Zuck's cell phone and he could tell us right away?

  6. The worst part by bobstreo · · Score: 1

    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...

    1. Re:The worst part by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 0

      I second that. I've been carefully cultivating the seconds of my life not caring about Facefook or what happens on it.

      These days, when someone says I can visit their page on Facefook, I say, "OMG, is someone still using FACEBOOK in this day and age? HAHAHAHA..." then I ask where I can go to get information about their group or organization without using Facebook because I won't do it, sometimes they'll say something like, "Twitter" and I'll laugh and ask the same question.

      Basically, I've boiled it down to this. I use e-mail. I am the old man of the modern age. I TALK to people with my phone (and when I do, I hold it up to my head and use it the way it was INTENDED; a little tiny bit of microwave energy has yet to harm anyone demonstrably,) and I visit their website and use e-mail. If you want me to visit your group, or consider patronizing your business, don't tell me to visit your Facebook page, or see you on Twitter... have a real, actual, big boy (or girl) website like a fucking grown-up. Or don't, but you're not getting my business. (Note, you don't have to have a website at all... if you have like, a store or something, it's fine with me for you not to have a website. BUT if you DO have a presence on the web, and I have to use some bullshit service, like Facefuck or Twatter to get to it, I'm just going to assume you're not serious enough for me to waste my time on.

      In the primaries for the upcoming elections, I actually took the time and effort to look into each candidate for office. I visited their websites and looked at them. Except one, who only had a Facebook page, not a real, as I've said, BIG-BOY website like a fucking adult runninig for federal office.

      Guess whose page I didn't even bother to look at, and for whom I didn't even consider voting?

      Yeah. So... speaking of that, I have to go look at who I am going to vote for in the upcoming general election which won't matter because the state where I live right now is not a swing state and therefore I could comfortably bet about a hundred bucks whom we're going to "elect" in the fraud that is less than a month away. (Sigh...)

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      Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
    2. Re:The worst part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Holy fuck, I bet you're a goddamn hoot at parties.

    3. Re:The worst part by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

      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.

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      Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
    4. Re:The worst part by No+Longer+an+AC · · Score: 1

      The difference is he still goes to parties while other people are too busy updating their Facebook status to "Life of the Party".

    5. Re:The worst part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So....should I stay off your lawn?..... ;)

  7. I already know. (I think.) by msauve · · Score: 1

    It's not hard. #deletefacebook.

    (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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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  8. step 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    admit you don't have a FB account

  9. What about the 'Chip'?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What about the Supermicro spy chip that was supposed to be in servers in Facebook?

    That story has sort of just disappeared without anyone pointing to a signal conditioning chip on a motherboard.

    Go on, it should be easy to find, if its not on every motherboard, compare them to see the difference. If it IS on every motherboard, look for a 6 pin signal condition with network access and power lines running in. It will also look different under a thermal camera and under XRay.

    The longer nobody finds the chip, the more I suspect the story was a planted election-time hoax.

    1. Re:What about the 'Chip'?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You have your tinfoil hat on too tight. Only the Chinese government needs a chip to access data on the servers. The US government just has very smart people embedded at Intel and AMD. (Many people would sell their own life for the right price. You're telling me a silicon design engineer can't be bought and insert a few bits here and there that allow special things to happen when certain data appears on a bus? Back door on every processor.)

  10. How to know if your information hasn't been stolen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Never used FaceBullshit since the beginning.

  11. Queue the "i ditched facebook... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... a year ago" comments of people who feel morally superior to people who continue to use facebook.

    1. Re:Queue the "i ditched facebook... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

      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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    2. Re:Queue the "i ditched facebook... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      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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      #DeleteFacebook
    3. Re: Queue the "i ditched facebook... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How about "I'm not a fucking idiotic poser so I never read anything Facebook reated if I didnt sign up to it in the first place"?

      I don't claim any relief from that, merely a huge sense that I'm not a total as*hole every time one of these stories pops up.

    4. Re:Queue the "i ditched facebook... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

      "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't long before the site, the membership, and FB itself all started changing radically. I moved country at about that time. Real life became way too busy for me to think about it much, and FB became less and less interesting when I did bother to log in. At some point in early 2013, I realised that it'd been several months since I'd last done so, longer than that since I'd posted anything, and that I actually kinda liked it that way. Never missed it, never went back.

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      Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  12. Re: How to know if your information hasn't been st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Facebook is irrelevant and always has been. When will people realize that those still using it are lemmings and always have been.

  13. What about my naked pictures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I uploaded all the naked pictures to Facebook that I wanted them to filter out of all content available on the site. Are they safe?

  14. Facebook needs to inform. by bjwest · · Score: 1

    The data seems to be there if all one has to do is log in to their account and check, so Facebook already knows who's been hacked. Facebook needs to email everyone at their non-Facebook contact point that they've been hacked.

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    1. Re:Facebook needs to inform. by hawguy · · Score: 1

      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.

  15. Why in the world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...would FB have credit card information?
    Farmville?

  16. Just went off by tsa · · Score: 1

    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.

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    -- Cheers!

  17. They're embarrassed about it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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!"

    1. Re:They're embarrassed about it by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2

      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.

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      The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  18. Fake book by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Login and they will get into your account.

    #phishing

  19. No account: how to check? by Kazymyr · · Score: 1

    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.

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    I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
  20. Facebook is public by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Everything on Facebook is public. The concept of having "private information" on Facebook is a *uckerberg scam. So whatever happened, it wasn't personal data that was exposed. It was public data. Data that became public when you entered it into *uckbook. If you didn't understand how to use the internet before, well, now you do. The internet is public, and forever. That's how it works. People who tell you otherwise are lying to you so they can steal from you.