> Also, Facebook and other big tech companies are way less likely to get hacked thanks to more established data handling practices. Well, historically, bad act

> Also, Facebook and other big tech companies are way less likely to get hacked thanks to more established data handling practices. Well, historically, bad actors haven't needed to "hack" Facebook because it has made it possible for them to access user data without hacking. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/986005820/after-data-breach-exposes-530-million-facebook-says-it-will-not-notify-users https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/986005820/after-data-breach-e... > In response to the reporting, Facebook said in a blog post on Tuesday that "malicious actors" had scraped the data by exploiting a vulnerability in a now-defunct feature on the platform that allowed users to find each other by phone number. It's not a vulnerability, it's a "feature".