The "540 million records" wording seems misleading (probably intentionally by UpGuard and/or TechCrunch). The screenshot on https://www.upguard.com/breaches/fac

The "540 million records" wording seems misleading (probably intentionally by UpGuard and/or TechCrunch). The screenshot on https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak leads me to think that this is 540m object records of various types (posts, comments, etc), not records of 540m distinct users like some readers would think. It sounds like a lot, but it's not. You could probably scrape that much data from public Facebook pages in a few days without even being logged in, especially a few years ago. Heck, you could say right now that Reddit has billions of user records exposed if you define them that way. The Hacker News first page itself links to thousands of user records :)