The 800 Facebook pages purge was a damage control measure to silent the voices that would be the first to raise the alarm about the dangers that the massive hack had done and will do in the future. Facebook is trying to delay as much as possible the mainstream coverage of a killer news.

1  2018-10-15 by QuartzPuffyStar

Facebook is trying to avoid the coverage of the massive amount of user data lost last month, and that will risk the financial, virtual and personal sphere of the victims.

They are downplaying both the numbers and the scale of the the attack, which at the worst case scenario had compromised ALL the platform gathered data from over 30 Million users (a number that was given by FB, we don´t know how much they are, it could be 40, 60, or 200M if not much more accounts) which includes all the data generated from the creation of the affected accounts:

  • Private Information (addresses, telephone numbers, private accounts in other sites)
  • User contact networks, including family, work, peer related
  • Likes
  • All messaging content including images and audio
  • Geolocation data
  • Tagged photos and messages
  • Shared content
  • And more.

Today it was already confirmed that at least half of the named number was completely compromised and is already being offered in the dark markets.

This means that at least over 15M people (as the minimal number) has ALL their data being openly sold in the dark markets. Which puts them in a very precarious situation and under a gigantic threat:

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  • All their website accounts, thatre quire secret questions about their private lives for password recovery are compromised (this includes email, bank website among others) (e.g. "What was my first job?[", "whats my mother name?", etC)
  • Their data could be sold to governments, opponents, enemies, just criminals for use against them. Any shared sensitive information can be now accessed FOREVER by anyone for future use against them. stuff like: Extortion, blackmail, public shaming, criminal activity, etc. If they ever sent a dickpick or a nude in their FB inbox, they are now at the mercy of anyone.

And the problem is that not only the person with the hacked account is at certain risk, but also their family members with can be contacted or lured with a fake account or call number assuring being the real person, and telling private info as proof to mislead the victim !

I will repeat that the potential future repercussions of this hack are exponentially dangerous to everyone involved.

Not only their identity is at risk, their career (be it political, corporate or social) can be harmed by data stolen 10 years ago!

And this can go a lot further for people as journalists, activists and dissidents from oppressive regimes. If FB itself didn´t offered info to government for a good chunk of money, now anyone with the accounts can categorize them and find suitable clients that would be VERY interested in knowing private details about their enemies. From now, to eternity, because that data will be never recovered. EVER.

I SUGGEST EVERYONE TO SHARE THE INFO AND AT LEAST TRY TO MINIMIZE THE RISKS BY TAKING ACTION IN THEIR RELATED ACCOUNTS, ACTIVATING 2FA AND OTHER SECURITY MEASURES.

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Facebook will try to minimize the importance of this leak, however their investors and other inner circle people had started selling the stock around the same time the attack happened. Their future depends on how will this info be delivered to the general public. And not only that, being FB an important asset for the government, they will not let it sink without fight. Thats why they took such an aggressive stance towards activist websites that would had started to spread this like fire.

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41 comments

1  WeAreTheResistance 2018-10-15

So do as I did and delete Facebook entirely. There's no issue at all if you've actually deleted Facebook and stop using it.

1  RoundTwoElectric 2018-10-15

Tbh if you’ve ever used it, regardless of whether you’ve deleted, they’ve probably kept your info

1  DarkFireRogue 2018-10-15

I deleted mine 7 years ago. They can have my decades out of date info.

1  PM_ME_CUTE_DOGES 2018-10-15

7 years ago

decades out of date info

decades

1  DarkFireRogue 2018-10-15

Just using hyperbole

1  MysticAnarchy 2018-10-15

Yeah, I tried telling my math teacher the same thing :(

1  Deplorableasfuk 2018-10-15

Try logging in again! They never really delete your data.

1  BozuOfTheWaterDogs 2018-10-15

Plus, facebook is automatically downloaded on my android and has access to many functions I have no control over.

1  blaaaahhhhh 2018-10-15

Gotta think bigger picture.

Even if your data (since deleting) isn’t an issue, as their is none, should it be a case of ‘well it’s your own fault!’. Or should Facebook have to answer for it and things be put in place to prevent future occurrences like it? Should Facebook be made an example of, or should we just drop it because the users should have known better.

I’m trying to figure out the benefit to your comment as it just seems naive and details conversation in an almost braggadocios way, while mocking anyone that complains.

You’re essentially defending companies that hold confidential personal data.

Where do we draw the line? If a bank did this, would you cover for the banks, bragging that you don’t have a bank account? Some of the information shared across Facebook, especially in the business space, is just as sensitive, with card details, important logins, communications and info stored across Facebook business pages.

1  gt250 2018-10-15

the only problem is a decent number of apps now use facebook integration as their main method of login. Like a bunch of my shit is all linked to my FB.

1  KnowledgeGoblin 2018-10-15

plot twist .. the accounts that were hacked are all the accounts that have been shutdown/"deleted" after their last fk up.

also .. you have a lot of typo's - you should fix

1  allonthesameteam 2018-10-15

So the folks that Facebook and twitter purged had their data stolen en masse? Correct? Source? If so this is war.

1  KnowledgeGoblin 2018-10-15

I actually meant the FB users who shut down and deleted their accounts .. this is the data that has been stolen (because fb didn't actually delete those accounts)
No proof .. hence the 'plot twist' - just a thought

1  allonthesameteam 2018-10-15

Deleted has a new meaning now.

1  OhHowTimeDoesFly 2018-10-15

Pretty sure most of the info in the leak was already sold several times over to... whoever the fuck wanted it. The leak is irrelevant in my mind... the data on your cell phone is compromised by design. It is a way to track human activity. The ban of discussion groups across the "major" platforms is an issue on a whole nother level.

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We now exist in a society where, should things continue at this pace, you will be forbidden from discussing a huge amount of topics - MOSTLY THOSE WHICH CRITICIZE AUTHORITY IN ANY MANNER. These groups never stopped anything... the anti war group never stopped war, the ones criticizing the police never stopped the brutality... .but at least we could WITNESS reality and discuss it.. if we felt the need. Some may have gone into la-la land with some theories, or chased evidence that later proved to be B.S. - but the so called mainstream media never even bothered acknowledging the existence of these things.... and if we're going to be real... the MSM has pushed disinformation and profited off of it which was FAR more damaging than these discussion groups...

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1  hidflect1 2018-10-15

Ha. I made a very similar point to yours in reply to someone just before I read your post. Great, suspicious minds think alike. Anyway, I don't think you're wrong.

1  OhHowTimeDoesFly 2018-10-15

Ain't it a bitch being sane?

1  KezzardTheWizzard 2018-10-15

What gets me is that twitter is what was praised as an avenue of free speech during the Iranian protests and during the Arab Spring and eastern European mini-revolutions and so forth. Yet that same "free speech" is shut down in the U.S.

Land of the free indeed.

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1  OhHowTimeDoesFly 2018-10-15

Well it serves as a mechanism of free throught. Which can easily be hijacked into a mechanism for revolution. Basically...as I view it... they are done with having us think

1  Gone_Gary_T 2018-10-15

And how.

1  nordoceltic82 2018-10-15

Facebook was to be the establishment's mind control system. To have real news on Facebook defeats it purpose. Facebook was supposed to be a double effort of Intel gathering on ordinary people, and a constant stream of propaganda.

So of course they were going to shut down all independent content on Facebook.

1  Datasinc 2018-10-15

Then why was it mostly conservative pages that post right leaning content?

Also the timing is just before an election.

I'm gonna go with this being a political purge.

1  hidflect1 2018-10-15

Right-leaning sites dislike FB the most. And FB dislikes them too so it was probably a "two-fer" as they say.

I think since FB is structured to leak data by design, it's perfectly feasible that 3rd parties have long since worked out how to access its systems and Suckerborg has lost control of that. Witness how bad Windows is for getting hacked without anti-virus protection. I doubt FB's coders and designers have half the experience of the MS people.

Who can be sure if FB knows and is hiding the extent of the flaws (as MS often did) or whether they are clueless or even if they're helping certain agencies they're ideologically aligned with? Whichever way. I wouldn't use it.

1  nordoceltic82 2018-10-15

All of the above is also an acceptable answer. From what I can gather a lot of news pages built around stuff like reporting police brutality, war-reporting, and corruption exposing were also shut down. Facebook's masters really want everything but the TV nightly news suppressed.

I've dubbed it the "Freedom curtain" in honor of the old soviet Iron Curtain of censorship. Its fast becoming a near all pervasive limiting of information available to the public. The Freedom Curtain is nearly complete, and its almost hit the ground at this point, ready to black out the truth in favor of propaganda.

1  turquoise_lady 2018-10-15

Im so happy I deleted facebook

1  piles_of_SSRIs 2018-10-15

Soon may come a day where Facebook dies and then maybe there will be a time where online anonymity becomes a normal and encouraged thing again, just like the mid to late 90s internet era.

1  MizchiefKilz 2018-10-15

I'm not sure what entity I'm more worried about having that data than Facebook

1  QuartzPuffyStar 2018-10-15

Facebook at least has some sort of legal framework to deal with when trying to sell it. Also they will not sell that data to any average criminal joe. Which is the case with any dark net vendor.

1  vivek31 2018-10-15

Google definitely.

1  berthoogveer 2018-10-15

/r/TitleGore

1  Eywadevotee 2018-10-15

Makes one wonder, is it even worth it to be part of the virtual reality.

1  Deplorableasfuk 2018-10-15

What are the odds this wasn’t a hack at all? But rather an intentional leak of conservatives accounts?

1  QuartzPuffyStar 2018-10-15

A decent probability I would say. It would circumvent all the legal limitations about what they can share or not. It could explain the weird neglection FB management had when the inusual traffic was reported for the first time.

1  Deplorableasfuk 2018-10-15

I’ve tried contacting fb about this. But outside of sending a certified letter they have no email or customer service online that will answer my simple question: Was my account hacked?

1  QuartzPuffyStar 2018-10-15

https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice

you can enter this link, it will say if your account was compromised.

1  rcglinsk 2018-10-15

Never had a Facebook page and becoming more proud of it every day.

1  alexandrapersea 2018-10-15

Everyone should start using burner emails https://burnermail.io

1  QuartzPuffyStar 2018-10-15

you still need to provide your email to use them. They will have the data linking all the burner mails to that one.

1  alexandrapersea 2018-10-15

That's true, but this way it's just one service that has it, and not the other 50+ you signup for.

1  sluttyredridinghood 2018-10-15

So if our identities can never be truly confirmed as a result of the scores of data breaches, when is the financial system going to collapse?

1  KnowledgeGoblin 2018-10-15

I actually meant the FB users who shut down and deleted their accounts .. this is the data that has been stolen (because fb didn't actually delete those accounts)
No proof .. hence the 'plot twist' - just a thought

1  DarkFireRogue 2018-10-15

Just using hyperbole