Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/03/personal-data-from-over-500m-facebook-users-leaked-online/
@Liz_Shepherd of FB Comms said on Twitter this is 'old data' from a prior incident -and the problem was fixed back in 2019. But regardless, how the hell is someone's birthday 'old' data? Sounds like they're playing fast and loose with semantics to downplay the headline severity....eg, it's 'old data' b/c they collected it a long time ago and/or because it got disclosed in a prior incidentt. Even if this data is from a prior Facebook breach, to dismiss it as 'old data' from a 'now fixed problem' as the story breaks IMO is not exactly the best public statement they could make here.. ...more @ https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4 -- Iw mailing list [email protected] http://sticklist.org/mailman/listinfo/iw_sticklist.org
