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How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack (recode.net)
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.
It's fake. All fake. How stupid do you think I am?
The personal data was not stolen. It was sold. This is the way of Facebook.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
No Facebook means no Facebook problem....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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...
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?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
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.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
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.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
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.
-- Cheers!
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.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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.
#DeleteFacebook
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.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
"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.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.