• Facebook admits year-long data breach exposed 6 million users
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[quote]([url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/net-us-facebook-security-idUSBRE95K18Y20130621]Reuters[/url]) - Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late Friday. Facebook blamed the data leaks, which began in 2012, on a technical glitch in its massive archive of contact information collected from its 1.1 billion users worldwide. As a result of the glitch, Facebook users who downloaded contact data for their list of friends obtained additional information that they were not supposed to have.[/quote]
My windows phone actually gave me all my facebook contacts email addresses and I wasn't too sure why :v:
Not that this matters, the NSA does worse shit than this anyways.
[QUOTE=Computrix;41137019]Not that this matters, the NSA does worse shit than this anyways.[/QUOTE] NSA doesn't prank call/harass random people to get their dick hard though?
[QUOTE=The freeman;41137044]NSA doesn't prank call/harass random people to get their dick hard though?[/QUOTE] or do they???
I figured as much. My phone has everyone's email and lots of phone numbers from my Facebook and I know a few of them have it hidden.
Only data they could get off of me is an old e-mail that's a huge spam folder. Last I checked there was 4000+ messages in there!
[QUOTE=Memobot;41138074]Only data they could get off of me is an old e-mail that's a huge spam folder. Last I checked there was 4000+ messages in there![/QUOTE] I haven't checked my facebook email on years. It's on the old family pc which only my sister uses. Its so slow I expect I would kill it of I loaded those messages (probably 30k+)
Who the fuck has their phone number on Facebook?
[QUOTE=Crazy;41138169]Who the fuck has their phone number on Facebook?[/QUOTE] More than you'd think. I don't have a very big friends list and my phone has still scraped lots of numbers out of it.
[QUOTE=Crazy;41138169]Who the fuck has their phone number on Facebook?[/QUOTE] its a verfication method, and when I had my dumbphone it was helpful to update my status because my phone didnt have internet [img]http://puu.sh/3lvBI.png[/img]
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41138210]its a verfication method, and when I had my dumbphone it was helpful to update my status because my phone didnt have internet [img]http://puu.sh/3lvBI.png[/img][/QUOTE] Let's go through this again: Your personal phonenumber on a public social website. It only takes one cock up and your phone number is available to anyone.
My privacy settings only make it viewed by me its just a security method because I don't want my Facebook highjacked Same reason why people have their numbers saved to Google
[QUOTE=Crazy;41138229]Let's go through this again: Your personal phonenumber on a public social website. It only takes one cock up and your phone number is available to anyone.[/QUOTE] This isn't a fair line of thinking, no matter how public or social a website is, there needs to still be settings that are completely secret, and if that is breached, then victim blaming is retarded. [editline]22nd June 2013[/editline] Similar to passwords, just because it's a public social website doesn't mean that your password should be expected to be insecure and victim blaming is not warranted, obviously.
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;41138694]This isn't a fair line of thinking, no matter how public or social a website is, there needs to still be settings that are completely secret, and if that is breached, then victim blaming is retarded. [editline]22nd June 2013[/editline] Similar to passwords, just because it's a public social website doesn't mean that your password should be expected to be insecure and victim blaming is not warranted, obviously.[/QUOTE] I opted out of using my telephone number simply because of stuff like this. If someone hacks my Facebook for whatever reason, I'll rely on my email to get it back.
I actually got this email too, and it said the last 4 digits of my phone number. I never gave facebook my phone number. I even checked with a profile download and it's not there.
Some phones (such as Blackberrys) automatically add your number to Facebook if you use a Facebook app and a lot of people simply don't notice or care about it.
[QUOTE=Crazy;41138229]Let's go through this again: Your personal phonenumber on a public social website. It only takes one cock up and your phone number is available to anyone.[/QUOTE] Chances are your home phone number is in a phone book for everyone to see, why is it even such a big deal?
Most companies already had these numbers.
[quote]Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year[/quote] "Unauthorized" in this context being people who didn't pay Facebook for this information.
this is why I never liked Facebook. It's social networking with no privacy. [QUOTE=DOG-GY;41137578]or do they???[/QUOTE] "Is your refrigerator running?" "Uhh... I guess?" "BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA"
So [I]that[/I] is why my Facebook account got hacked from someone in Niger who reset my password.
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