NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says hackers accessed data from 29 million accounts as part of the security breach disclosed two weeks ago.
The exact number hadn’t been known before. Originally Facebook said 50 million accounts could have been affected, but Facebook didn’t know if they had been misused.
The hackers accessed name, email addresses or phone numbers from those 29 million accounts. For 14 million of those accounts, hackers got even more data, such as hometown, birthdate, the last 10 places they checked into or 15 most recent searches. One million accounts were affected but hackers didn’t gain information. The social media service plans to send messages to people whose accounts were hacked.
Facebook says third-party apps and Facebook apps like WhatsApp and Instagram were unaffected by the breach.
If you haven’t yet deleted your Facebook account, please do it now:
Facebook doesn’t care. Executives aren’t doing much more than protecting their own highly valued privacy and leaning in to count the money. It’s time for the good rats to leave that ship, as it becomes over-populated with kooky conspiracy-mongers, hackers, bad actors (GRU, Burmese totalitarians, etc), and narcissists telling you what color their socks are today.
I have never had a facebook account, because I never trusted Fuckerberg. He is way to full of his own shit and way to swamy at the same time. Bad combo.
The real question is why anyone would still put any information on Facebook, given Fuckerberg’s willingness to prostitute your data (or just give it to the Russians) or let it be hacked.
When you sign-up for a free service from a company like Facebook and then wonder what they are selling, the answer is that they are selling you.