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I'm trying to see which is a bigger problem at hand. The Equifax breach a couple months back or the FB fiasco. Equifax breached over 143 million users with soc
by jaequery 9y ago
I'm trying to see which is a bigger problem at hand.
The Equifax breach a couple months back or the FB fiasco.
Equifax breached over 143 million users with social security #, credit card #, and personal data.
For FB, can someone explain to me what was the actual damage, was it just personal information about you?
- smaili 9y agoBest way I can think of explaining it: The Equifax breach was more of how you're identified, whereas with Facebook it's more of who you are.
- ellisv 9y ago> For FB, can someone explain to me what was the actual damage, was it just personal information about you? FB allowed apps to access data about the user (who authorized the app) and their friends (who did not need to authorize the app). The kind the data FB has can be used to reveal a lot of information about you (e.g. age, where you live, etc.) and this information can then also be used to derive things you haven't told FB -- such as estimating your income or predicting your SSN [1]. [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975 http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975