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Facebook has already updated the numbers from from 47 million to 80 something million. This is going going to go bigger than Yahoo scale: "all accounts and all
by paulie_a 9y ago
Facebook has already updated the numbers from from 47 million to 80 something million. This is going going to go bigger than Yahoo scale: "all accounts and all data" pretty quickly
- 734786710934 9y agoThe data accessed here was from a smaller unrelated research study. The only thing it has in common with the larger CA leak is that it was done by the same researcher.
- paulie_a 9y agoThat's a pretty significant aspect. I'm sure he stole plenty more data in other unrelated studies
- hunt 9y agoThe article seems to spin it as being part of the CA study, apart from the small commentary towards the end. Has anyone seen the text of the message FB has shown to the affected 87 million and does it explicitly mention private messages?
- panarky 9y agoThe 84 million number is just for Cambridge Analytica. The real number is north of 2 billion. "Malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery." "Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way." https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access...