This could be the first large breach we've seen from FB like this. Most past breaches were of a much different and smaller nature (scraping or API access abuse)

This could be the first large breach we've seen from FB like this. Most past breaches were of a much different and smaller nature (scraping or API access abuse), and seeing a real leak like this could change the landscape for FB quite a bit, since historically companies like Facebook and Google have been very good with preventing them. I don't know a ton about FB's specifics, but there's a chance this data could be 'public' from people with the given privacy settings, if perhaps 25% of users have that turned on. If that is not the case though, then this would be the first serious breach from FB imo. Either way at this point I operate under the expectation that most information I input into a database may be leaked at some point. This is particularly rough for services that demand and track a lot of things, but it cannot be helped.