I hear this analogy used sometimes but modern data isn't equivalent to phone book data. You had the option to be unlisted and it was respected. You also didn't

I hear this analogy used sometimes but modern data isn't equivalent to phone book data. You had the option to be unlisted and it was respected. You also didn't have your name and address tied to so much personal data in one place. And do we know this data was public? I don't use FB but I know you have options to control who can see what you post, whether it's public or private. Sure, if you're the HN crowd and assume every database is penetrable, this may not be a "threat incident" but when you're Grandma Jones who assumes that when she ticks the "private" box on her posts that it'll be private. If you care about infosec but are still ignorant of just how incompetent these companies can be then this breach is a "verified threat incident" and there's no reason to be alarmist here because someone mentioned that it happened.