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Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by paulcole on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:55PM (#18223110)
Except they're going backwards this time.

First they said, "exposure of information from nearly 50 million of its users" and now it's "directly affected 29 million people on the social network".

John Gruber claimed the same thing a couple weeks ago:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/28/facebook-hack

Surprisingly quiet this time since it doesn't fit the narrative he wanted.

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Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by Scoundreller on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:06PM (#18223207)
It’s a cumulative thing.

Each time you load the page, it’s a separate publication about a different 50 million /s.

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Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ... by jen729w on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:13PM (#18223256)
You’re joking, but I came here to ask “which breach is this one referring to”, and was going to suggest assigning them each a serial number. It’s just getting too hard to track, and FB sure isn’t going to go out of its way to make the numbers comprehensible.
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