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I think the reason this isn't being reported much on is because it wasn't a leak. It sounds like it was just a scrape of data from the site. Scraping websites

by aylmao 9y ago

I think the reason this isn't being reported much on is because it wasn't a leak. It sounds like it was just a scrape of data from the site. Scraping websites to collect public information is nothing new. Malicious actors do it all the time, as do non-malicious actors too. Google literally does it. EDIT: I'm all for facebook messed up and we need more guarantees but lets be objective though. The CA issue is an issue, this 2 billion thing is just a web-crawler.

panarky 9y ago
No, this wasn't just garden variety web crawling. Sites can control whether they get crawled or not. Facebook, for example, stops Google from crawling Facebook profiles. But Facebook allowed "malicious actors" to access to user profiles for "most of its 2 billion users worldwide". These 2 billion users didn't choose to expose their personal information to "malicious actors", Facebook did it without their consent.