Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by awinter-py on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:46AM (#13968130)

Also possible that the user read & understood the message but didn't take it as proof of its claim.

FB has a history of collecting cross-site passwords from failed logins.

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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by ccrush on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:24AM (#13968460)

I would like to know more about this. Do you have a source? I have suspected this for years.

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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by awinter-py on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:28AM (#13968507)

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...

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Re:Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me de... by Zaephyr on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:31PM (#13969848)

FB's security people likely track and have copies of account/password dumps from site breeches. Sort of like Troy Hunt does with haveibeenpwned.com but for their own internal security measures.

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