An absolute goldmine for identity thieves was released to the web by a hack into the Facebook database. Business Insider is reporting the personal information from 533 million Facebook users was hacked including: 32+ million records on U.S. with their “phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, & email addresses.”
Do not be surprised if the data removed ultimately attributes to a particular political and social grouping of users that Facebook identified and categorized. There is a very reasonable suspicion the release of the information could be ideologically targeted.
(Via Business Insider) – A user in a low level hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.
The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.
[…] “A database of that size containing the private information such as phone numbers of a lot of Facebook’s users would certainly lead to bad actors taking advantage of the data to perform social engineering attacks [or] hacking attempts,” Gal told Insider.
Facebook did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.
Gal first discovered the leaked data in January when a user in the same hacking forum advertised an automated bot that could provide phone numbers for hundreds of millions of Facebook users in exchange for a price. Motherboard reported on that bot’s existence at the time and verified that the data was legitimate.
Now, the entire dataset has been posted on the hacking forum for free, making it widely available to anyone with rudimentary data skills. (read more)
Suspicious cat remains, well, suspicious…
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Interesting that Insider refers to facebook as “a reputable Company.” We’re boycotting a “reputable company”?
Get. Off. Social. Media.
We are on social media right now!
Insider isn’t Social media!
So glad I cancelled my FB account 4 years ago.
So glad I never had a FB account.
Same hear and its fun beeing socially retarded aint it H.R.?
Same here.
If you don’t share every detail of your mundane life on Zuckerface you are “socially retarded”?? I bet you call homeschooled kids “socially retarded”, too. People get some kind of weird gratification from “likes” and “friends” that is unhealthy, to say the least. FB is like the annual Christmas letter update some people send out to paint themselves and their family as super-achieving, perfect, enviable, etc. There is no reason pics and family events can’t be shared in group texts and emails.
Can you REALLY delete your info?
From everything I’ve heard, it’s next to impossible. Fortunately for me, I never bought into giving up my identity online to a bunch of strangers.
For those who are finally fed up, this would be helpful:
Tell your friends and followers WHY you are leaving. And just GO.
There are better ways of communicating.
1) Face to face conversations 2) Live telephone conversations 3) Hand written letters 4) Go to a Church service 5) Typewritten letters 6) Typewritten text messages 7) Birthday and Christmas cards 8) Telepathy 🙂
Twitter has a rule that anyone who wishes to close their account must wait six months AFTER applying to close it, to actually have it closed.
meh. post something Twitter deems objectionable.
The steps to removing your data from FB are in the privacy location. My bf has done it already as far as : downloading all his pictures and posts ever posted onto fb. Provide an email account for them to be sent to. It takes a bit of time. It is totally possible to get all your personal history off. It is also required to “clear”the “likes” and the comments one has made on other people’s posts.
In privacy settings, you must click quite a few to get to the destination. I myself am going to begin doing it this weekend.
I’ve read several times but still remain skeptical that Facebook is tied in with the CIA and was originally an experiment. Just saying.
Well, you are entitled to your opinion, of course. Isn’t the CIA bankrolling the beginning FB common knowledge?
I also cancelled my FB account last year. I’m assuming you experienced the same as me with the tedious process that they implement to get rid of it. Sure glad I did it.
They kicked me off. I used the pseudonym “Harry Butts” and they contacted me and wanted my birthday. I couldn’t remember the fake birthday I gave them so they dumped me. I was so sad…..
Me too, 2yrs ago!
So during the fraudulent election some true computer people could trace those switching votes down to their ISP and address and computer type.
Why can’t Fakebook do the same ? One of the richest Americans who has the worst haircut on the face of this earth opened the door for this to happen regularly
Ever notice how far back his hairline has receded? He combs it that way to hide that.
I figured he just wanted to look like Nero.
LOL. It is the dippiest haircut, makes him look like a bot, or a 2 yr old.
Disney was working on a Zuckerberg animatronic but abandoned it after failing to be able to create one that acted robotic enough.
He can’t be human.
I think he’s kind of autistic.
He’s not merely a guy with a bad haircut. He’s a psychopath, like Bill Gates is a psychopath.
And Zuckerberg aided in the fraudulent election by using private funding where the cheating was the biggest.
He’s like 12 years old mentally and physically.
You do not need a Facebook account for Facebook to have your number in their database.
They have shadow profiles of people, which for example you might have an account, and you don’t put your cell number in it.
One of your friends lists your cell number in their contacts. Boom, Facebook now records your cell number.
It used to be , a few years back, that you could read local newspapers on line and they had a readers comment section w/ lots of comments from locals.
Then the local papers got bought up by big conglomerates and shut down the comment sections.
All of a sudden, you had to go to the FB page of the “local” paper to read comments on the local articles. Kind of like the big conglomerates had made a “deal” w/ FB.
I have never had an FB or twit account and could just go read the local comments.
Then, a couple months ago FB started limiting the amount of comments you could read if you didn’t have an account.>>>> Almost like they are losing customers and now trying to FORCE people to sign up! hahahaha!!!!
If Conservatives ever came up with a decent site, they’d probably have no problem getting people to use it. But-so far anyway- they’ve been pretty pathetic at it.
St. Pete Times comment section used to be a hoot…until it was bought out by Tampa Tribune.
They tried to fake it for a while, but it went south rapidly.
Leftists are masochists.
They HATE for people to have free speech and be able to talk freely. The stuff you learn from the comments!
I’d say the Treehouse is a more-than-decent conservative site, and it’s a mystery to me why President Trump is not using it. By the way, today my son told me President Trump recently bought an island off the coast of Florida, on the way to Bermuda. He bought the WHOLE island and I’m guessing the security around it must be awesome!
Jarvanka probably told him not to.
so glad the cia dropped lifelog and picked of FB and tricked us into thinking its a social media platform
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cant evade the 4th amendment unless its voluntary, brought in yourselves, or terms of service agreed.
So sad. Not on Fakebook and don’t care.
This guy should be placed in stocks in the middle of town.
That’s why I don’t give those F’ers anything but a junk email, fake birthdate, etc.
Can you sign up at Gab and other “conservative” places w/ fake info, too?
Never knew that was possible.
Sunnydaze, more and more you are right, you can’t sign up with fake info because there is so much access to correct info they can consult.
I never trusted Facebook in the first place. They don’t have my address or my phone number. This sounds more like a data dump more than it does a hack.
Facebook….reuniting you with people you’ve been out of touch with for decades…to remind you exactly why you lost touch with them to begin with.
LOL :-))
“Hack?” Sure, right.
Hacked?…..yeah, right…uh huh
Right and do you all think that your email carrier isn’t doing the same thing to you. Google at the very least is just as evil and corrupt as Crapbook! I assure you all that anyone out there that wants info on you bad enough can find all they want, right down to your blood type.
And Google owns You Tube, which is often pointed to here, with links directly to it. WHY?
Don’t worry. If you’re on the Do Not Call list, the government will protect you. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! “The government will protect you.” ROFLMAO!! What a line!! What a maroon!
And yet Sundance, you continue to put Fakebook link in the number 1 position! Sorry but having that link where it is simply encourages more of the same behavior. Alphabetical order for any sharing links! This company is run by a bunch of incompetent leftists and can’t handle their own security. Please explain to us Sundance, why the links can’t be in alphabetical order?
Every conservative website including local and national RNC is supporting these leftist commies by people using the links. Do you really care that your message gets on a site that could cancel your message at any time? Take down the Fakebook link and people will communicate using some other company. Stop supporting and they will fall. It’s time Sundance, put up or shut up!
Anyone up for class action?
Good, hope they loss all their money. Anyone still on facebook is a moron and deserves a good screwing..
That many people’s names and junk hacked ~ proving several things (1) social websites aren’t all they claim they are, and (2) those people aren’t as important as they managed.
IMAGINED…..
“Hack?”
More like FB giving themselves plausible deniability.