Facebook has been hacked - Information of 533 million users posted online

[Antarctic Hellbeast]

Facebook... Isnt that the platform that was getting hacked every other week over the last decade? How is this news by now? Does anyone even use Facebook anymore?

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Anyone else with boomer relatives feeling stressed right now? I sure am. Like holy fuck it doesn't matter if you haven't been on FB in months, how do you not understand this.

I taught my parents and grandparents about proper internet security and so should you.

 

[Iuz]

Surprise, surprise.

It will forever remain a mystery to me why people I know continue documenting their lives and those around them there, before that Myspace, and spent years ranting about how socialengineeringbook was used to steal the 2016 ellection.

 

[BallisticStylus]

Hmmm, a website where people put their personal information gets leaked and hacked? With all their locations, jobs, and family online for everyone to see? Nah, it won't go bad for Facebook.

This is why it is important to not use your real information for your social media, EVER, as people could leak that shit and now get in trouble.

 

[cyberdick]

It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses."

I mean for most people this information is already on their profile. Whats to say this isn't just publicly available data? I hope its a hack because FB need to get fucked but I have my doubts

 

[Null]

I mean for most people this information is already on their profile. Whats to say this isn't just publicly available data? I hope its a hack because FB need to get fucked but I have my doubts

Phone numbers aren't public.

 

[Solid Snek]

People who work in industries that demand them for background checks.

If you try to get a decent paying job in tech and you don't at the very least have a LinkedIn with your full name, work history and professional looking photo then you're gonna have a rough time unless you know some people. Not having social media tends to be a big red flag for most white collar jobs nowadays, especially if you're below 40.

Yeah, it's one of those things that you've got to bite the bullet and do, at least if you're looking to be a white collar worker. It's like churchgoing for the postindustrial social hierarchy; Telescreen Participation may not be mandated by law, but The Party expects you to be visible, and if you're not then there's probably something wrong with you.

At the risk of stating the obvious, FB got funding and social support from the intelligence community specifically because it was a self-building data repository that could be used for background checks, spying, etc. Why spend money and manhours conducting face-to-face interviews with family and friends, and scouring bank, school, hospital, prison, and work records to build up a usable profile on someone, when you could instead convince people to plaster the bulk of their sensitive information, online, for fun?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The Zuck got fucked by 4chan cucks.

 

[AIM Henchman]

Well, it's a good thing I copy and pasted that post claiming all information in my profile was mine and noone else had the right to use it. Security level: .

 

[7he47r0n]

Surprise, surprise.

It will forever remain a mystery to me why people I know continue documenting their lives and those around them there, before that Myspace, and spent years ranting about how socialengineeringbook was used to steal the 2016 ellection.

Often due to a lack of belief in the existence of an eternal soul. People are frightened, deep down, of being forgotten, since they equate that with non-existence. Also a simple hunger for attention, and an innate loneliness.

 

[huecoffs02]

Zuck got cuckd

 

[Canoodler]

Boomers on suicide watch.

 

[HiramTheGrift]

A lot of people here are bragging that they deleted their Facebook accounts years ago. Don't act like Zucc decided to delete your information once you clicked "Delete Facebook." Treat this like your data got leaked, because it probably did.

 

[Probably An Autist]

Now I'm a retard with a facebook account that has personal info on it, and I can't find myself in the dump. Curious.

 

[Lady Adjani]

I've long since given up on the idea that my data is safe or that I could realistically maintain a social media account without any ties to my actual information. If you look hard enough you'll find it, maybe it's a phone number that's part of a 2-step verification system or a backup email that I use for throwaway sites that seem to get hacked on a weekly basis,

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Reminder that Facebook wanted to get people's medical records a few years back.

I remember back when I used Facebook over 10 years back. Everyone would easily have their accounts hacked and would spam fucking adverstiments. The site always had shit security.

"But it has better security than Myspace!" I shudder at this statement. Too Zoomer to have had a Myspace account, so can anyone confirm if the bar was really that low?

 

[Large]

"free facebook hacker without surveys" will never be real.
*vomits oatmeal at mach 1 speed at u*

 

[Probably An Autist]

Reminder that Facebook wanted to get people's medical records a few years back.

"But it has better security than Myspace!" I shudder at this statement. Too Zoomer to have had a Myspace account, so can anyone confirm if the bar was really that low?

iirc myspace was literally just username + password for login, where as facebook at least tried to make phone number/SMS confirmation a thing. Myspace also didn't track sessions on different devices (though tbf I can't remember if that was really commonplace back then).

As for backend I'm 100% sure myspace was ass, but I wouldn't know that.

 

[instythot]

Phone numbers aren't public.

They used to be, but displayed as images rather than copy/paste-able text. I can't imagine they've scraped that stuff and held onto it for 8+ years before leaking it

 

[BingBong]

Link to the supposed data, mess with it at your own risk

https://raidforums.com/Thread-Free-Facebook-533M-record-106Countries-For-free

Spoiler: Alleged amount of data from each country, according to the guy who shared it.

1 Afghanistan 558,393
2 Africa 14,323,766
3 Angola 50,889
4 Albania 506,602
5 Algeria 11,505,898
6 Argentina 2,347,553
7 Austria 1,249,388
8 Australia 7,320,478
9 Azerbaijan 99,472
10 Bahrain 1,450,124
11 Bangladesh 3,816,339
12 Belgium 3,183,584
13 Bolivia 2,959,209
14 Botswana 240,606
15 Brazil 8,064,916
16 Brunei 213,795
17 Bulgaria 432,473
18 Burkina Faso 6,413
19 Burundi 15,709
20 Cambodia 2,838
21 Cameroon 1,997,658
22 Canada 3,494,385
23 Chile 6,889,083
24 China 670,334
25 Colombia 17,957,908
26 Costa Rica 1,464,002
27 Croatia 659,115
28 Cyprus 152,321
29 Czech Republic 1,375,988
30 Denmark 639,841
31 Djibouti 14,327
32 Ecuador 310,259
33 Egypt 44,823,547
34 El Salvador 4,779
35 Estonia 87,533
36 Ethiopia 12,753
37 Fiji 5,364
38 Finland 1,381,569
39 France 19,848,559
40 Georgia 95,193
41 Germany 6,054,423
42 Ghana 1,027,969
43 Greece 617,722
44 Guatemala 1,645,068
45 Haiti 15,407
46 Honduras 16,142
47 Hong Kong 2,937,841
48 Hungary 377,045
49 Iceland 31,343
50 India 6,162,450
51 Indonesia 130,331
52 Iran 301,723
53 Iraq 17,116,398
54 Ireland 1,449,919
55 Israel 3,956,428
56 Italy 35,677,323
57 Jamaica 385,890
58 Japan 428,625
59 Jordan 3,105,988
60 Kazakhstan 3,214,990
61 Kuwait 4,468,134
62 Lebanon 1,829,661
63 Libya 4,204,514
64 Lithuania 220,160
65 Luxembourg 188,201
66 Macao 414,228
67 Malaysia 11,675,894
68 Maldives 86,337
69 Malta 115,366
70 Mauritius 848,558
71 Mexico 13,330,561
72 Moldova 46,237
73 Morocco 18,939,198
74 Namibia 409,356
75 Netherlands 5,430,388
76 Nigeria 9,000,131
77 Norway 475,809
78 Oman 5,048,532
79 Palestine 3,367,576
80 Panama 1,502,310
81 Peru 8,075,317
82 Philippine 879,699
83 Poland 2,669,381
84 Portugal 2,277,361
85 Puerto Rico 130,586
86 Qatar 2,526,694
87 Russia 9,996,405
88 Saudi Arabia 28,804,686
89 Serbia 162,898
90 Singapore 3,073,009
91 Slovenia 229,039
92 South Korea 121,744
93 Spain 10,894,206
94 Sudan 9,464,772
95 Sweden 1,092,140
96 Switzerland 1,592,039
97 Syria 6,939,528
98 Taiwan 734,807
99 Tunisia 39,526,412
100 Turkey 19,638,821
101 Turkmenistan 16,279
102 United Arab Emirates 6,978,927
103 United Kingdom 11,522,328
104 Uruguay 1,509,317
105 USA 32,315,282
106 Yemen 4,617,359

I also downloaded and attached the txt file from the ghostbin for posterity.