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I did not receive this terrifying note from Facebook explaining that an incomprehensible amount of personal information and identification data had been stolen by unknown hackers, but that people close to I did it. Now, an uncertain number of potentially malicious people know some pretty intimate details about them. And these data can be sold to other with malicious intent. They know their most recent phone number, the last 10 places they registered, the ones they searched for on Facebook, their e-mail addresses, their religious preferences, their workplace and, in some cases case, the content of messages they have published and to whom they have spoken on Messenger.
APRIL 8, 2018: Phone sitting on a laptop with the Facebook desktop site reflecting on the screen. The stock of the social media giant has fallen sharply since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It's disturbing, annoying and scary. I shudder at the thought that stolen information could be used to target my loved ones, because this information is not stolen without motivation – something that Facebook is still trying to determine alongside the FBI.
As stated by my colleague Kalev Leetaru, the most sinister problem related to Facebook's latest data breach may not be the violation itself, but Facebook's reaction to the affected users. In particular, its refusal to provide users with useful and detailed information that could help them prevent future identity fraud or phishing attacks that could target them as a direct consequence of this privacy breach.
"This raises the question of why Facebook has not offered every user concerned a PDF download containing a complete and exhaustive inventory of all the information accessible by attackers from his profile," said Leetaru.
Facebook's response to reporters regarding the scale of this attack adds to the discomfort. Their response, according to Leetaru, was: "[we are] We are still looking for other ways in which the perpetrators of this attack have used Facebook, and we have not ruled out the possibility of smaller-scale and lower-level access attempts during the vulnerability period. Our investigation on this subject continues. "
It's comforting. If you are one of the 30 million people to whom sensitive information has been stolen, get ready.
This notice was sent to millions of Facebook users who hackers stole sensitive personal information on Facebook.Facebook
In the end, this is not an article that examines in detail the endless parade of Facebook's privacy issues and the security of its users. There is no technical details behind the hack. It is not the financial ramifications that Facebook will certainly face – especially from the EU. It is because it has happened and there is a rational voice in your head that tells you that it will happen again.
Before that, my personal motivations for Facebook removal were focused on the platform's toxicity, addictiveness or biases present in how our news feeds are displayed. But now, Facebook feels like a real risk to my privacy; maybe even my security. Users affected by this violation had their friend lists examined, as well as friends of friends. Are they safe?
Next, my next natural thread of thought is "Messenger for Kids" and the fact that Facebook has the audacity to sell us a device that follows us into a room and displays zeros in our voices. No thanks.
Portal? No thanks, Facebook.Facebook
Affirmations like this one still sound like speeches from the conspiracy theory in aluminum paper. Until they arrive. Hey, is not Google so diabolical that it would not keep a data breach secret for three years just to protect its reputation? But that did it. In four years, Yahoo's famous data breach has grown from 500 million accounts assigned to 3 billion, including accounts of Yahoo and Flickr.
Should we just stay in the sand and stop using the Internet? It seems impossible. But we can choose our battles, right? Especially when privacy and security are at stake. A minor example uses an alternative search engine like DuckDuckGo that does not follow us on the web to sell targeted ads. Of course, an extreme example is the removal of Facebook, an action that seems impossible due to the rooting of the platform in our daily lives.
Do not forget that we can always talk to our loved ones without it. We can always get our latest news without it. We can always post memes and update our friends without it. We can download all the data we have uploaded.
At this point, Facebook has proven that it can not protect the sensitive information of its users, even with a security staff exceeding 10,000 people. And he demonstrated that he had no real interest in helping the affected users beyond informing them of the breach and reassuring them by telling them that, at least, your credit cards and passwords do not had not been stolen.
We can continue to exist on Facebook, but the only truly secure Facebook account is one that does not exist. Even then, you will have to wait 90 days before all your information is removed from the Facebook servers. According to Facebook anyway. . .
You can find out more about this incident and see if your account has been affected by visiting this page of the Facebook Help Center.
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I did not receive this terrifying note from Facebook explaining that an incomprehensible amount of personal information and identification data had been stolen by unknown hackers, but that people close to I did it. Now, an uncertain number of potentially malicious people know some pretty intimate details about them. And these data can be sold to other with malicious intent. They know their most recent phone number, the last 10 places they registered, the ones they searched for on Facebook, their e-mail addresses, their religious preferences, their workplace and, in some cases case, the content of messages they have published and to whom they have spoken on Messenger.
APRIL 8, 2018: Phone sitting on a laptop with the Facebook desktop site reflecting on the screen. The stock of the social media giant has fallen sharply since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It's disturbing, annoying and scary. I shudder at the thought that stolen information could be used to target my loved ones, because this information is not stolen without motivation – something that Facebook is still trying to determine alongside the FBI.
As stated by my colleague Kalev Leetaru, the most sinister problem related to Facebook's latest data breach may not be the violation itself, but Facebook's reaction to the affected users. In particular, its refusal to provide users with useful and detailed information that could help them prevent future identity fraud or phishing attacks that could target them as a direct consequence of this privacy breach.
"This raises the question of why Facebook has not offered every user concerned a PDF download containing a complete and exhaustive inventory of all the information accessible by attackers from his profile," said Leetaru.
Facebook's response to reporters regarding the scale of this attack adds to the discomfort. Their response, according to Leetaru, was: "[we are] We are still looking for other ways in which the perpetrators of this attack have used Facebook, and we have not ruled out the possibility of smaller-scale and lower-level access attempts during the vulnerability period. Our investigation on this subject continues. "
It's comforting. If you are one of the 30 million people to whom sensitive information has been stolen, get ready.
This notice was sent to millions of Facebook users who hackers stole sensitive personal information on Facebook.Facebook
In the end, this is not an article that examines in detail the endless parade of Facebook's privacy issues and the security of its users. There is no technical details behind the hack. It is not the financial ramifications that Facebook will certainly face – especially from the EU. It is because it has happened and there is a rational voice in your head that tells you that it will happen again.
Before that, my personal motivations for Facebook removal were focused on the platform's toxicity, addictiveness or biases present in how our news feeds are displayed. But now, Facebook feels like a real risk to my privacy; maybe even my security. Users affected by this violation had their friend lists examined, as well as friends of friends. Are they safe?
Then, my next natural thread of thought is "Messenger for Kids" and the fact that Facebook has the audacity to sell us a device that follows us in a room and displays zeros in our voice. No thanks.
Portal? No thanks, Facebook.Facebook
Affirmations like this one still sound like speeches from the conspiracy theory in aluminum paper. Until they arrive. Hey, is not Google so diabolical that it would not keep a data breach secret for three years just to protect its reputation? But that did it. In four years, Yahoo's famous data breach has grown from 500 million accounts assigned to 3 billion, including accounts of Yahoo and Flickr.
Should we just stay in the sand and stop using the Internet? It seems impossible. But we can choose our battles, right? Especially when privacy and security are at stake. A minor example uses an alternative search engine like DuckDuckGo that does not follow us on the web to sell targeted ads. Of course, an extreme example is the removal of Facebook, an action that seems impossible due to the rooting of the platform in our daily lives.
Do not forget that we can always talk to our loved ones without it. We can always get our latest news without it. We can always post memes and update our friends without it. We can download all the data we have uploaded.
At this point, Facebook has proven that it can not protect the sensitive information of its users, even with a security staff exceeding 10,000 people. And he demonstrated that he had no real interest in helping the affected users beyond informing them of the breach and reassuring them that at least your credit cards and passwords had not stolen.
We can continue to exist on Facebook, but the only truly secure Facebook account is one that does not exist. Even then, you will have to wait 90 days before all your information is removed from the Facebook servers. According to Facebook anyway. . .
You can find out more about this incident and see if your account has been affected by visiting this page of the Facebook Help Center.
