Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history and location stolen

Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by pwaivers on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:00PM (#18221440)

> User messages could have been exposed in one specific use case, officials said. If an affected user had been the administrator of a Facebook page, and the page had received a message from another user, that message may have been compromised, Facebook said.

Isn't this a common use case? Are we administrator to our own FB account?

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Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by close04 on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:06PM (#18221511)

A Facebook page is different from a Facebook profile in the way it's presented so most likely the messages are made available through different mechanisms. I guess they are suggesting the particular hack didn't directly give the attackers full access to the users' profile pages (including messages) but when it comes to Facebook pages the messages are directly exposed.

With FB and Google getting free passes (as in no penalty that hurts) after this kind of incident I don't see them doing much else beyond the minimal diligence.

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Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by Scoundreller on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:38PM (#18222411)

All the time. I often get vendor support through Facebook because there’s no hold time.

Emails go into the ether with lots of vendors.

the vendor cares more about people that could bash them to all their friends without typing a new URL.

Recent examples: i’ve Dealt with an airline and a post service over Facebook messenger, complete with ticket information, name, phone numbers and addresses.

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