Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People

Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by ryandrake on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:29PM (#18204039)

They should not require you to log in to their site to look up whether they have victimized you. I used to have a FB account but threw the random password away. Was I affected? No way to know?

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by marricks on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:47PM (#18204176)

Not to mention those of us with deleted Facebook accounts. It looks like I’m not affected but to anyone who had an account during those dates and deleted it since, how do they find out?

Yet another reason they should email affected users, guess they care more about not publicizing bad information than taking responsibility.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by staticassertion on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:48PM (#18204182)

They explicitly state they will email impacted users.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by coreypreston on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:50PM (#18204621)

Does a user with a deleted account qualify as an impacted user? I think the visibility is an issue.

As one of those people, this summer I encountered a spotify issue where my spotify would randomly start playing Cannabis Club ATL. Others had the same issue. Perhaps unrelated, too difficult to tell, especially if FB doesn't consider me an active user.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by lostlogin on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:56PM (#18204661)

Does a user with a deleted account qualify as an impacted user?

If they still store some user details (which it seems they do) and then this leaks - absolutely.

What about those who have never been users yet Facebook stores plenty of information about?

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by nabaraz on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:53PM (#18204645)

Does that mean they are still storing my email address? I deleted my account 2 years ago.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by staticassertion on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:30PM (#18205175)

I don't know? I don't see you would be impacted without an account.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by staticassertion on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:47PM (#18204178)

I guess they may be concerned with unauthenticated users checking if others are compromised.

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Re:Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 1... by EnFinlay on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:31PM (#18204060)

Likewise. They should send a notification to all e-mails on record for compromised accounts.

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