Facebook data on more than 500 Million Accounts found Online

 

Facebook should have been punished for their reckless disregard for the privacy of it's users. But they still continue to get away with their abuses. The ultimate answer is them to be broken up. facebook is too powerful. And that's how they get away with murder. That applies to all monopolies:

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.

The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is.

The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it has info from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses.

Facebook has been grappling with data security issues for years. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following revelations that the political firm Cambridge Analytica had accessed information on up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.