Facebook Estimates That Only 30 Million Accounts Compromised by Hackers

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Facebook has issued a new statement about the recent "View As" hack of the company where up to 90 million customers were affected. Now Facebook is certain that only 30 million users had their personal information exposed to the hackers. This personal information includes Facebook Messenger conversations, name, phone number, email, username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches. The hackers ignored the personal information of 1 million people. Concerned Facebook users can contact the Help Center to see if they were affected by the hack.

People can check whether they were affected by visiting our Help Center. In the coming days, we'll send customized messages to the 30 million people affected to explain what information the attackers might have accessed, as well as steps they can take to help protect themselves, including from suspicious emails, text messages, or calls.
 
Still a lot of people's information got exposed. Not a win in any regard, just damage control.
 
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They had to revise the number once they remembered to account for the fact that 2/3 of all social media accounts are either fake or bot accounts...
 
Dropped my Facebook account a month ago. Didn't really need it then except for 1 game, and don't need it now.
 
I think they’re just saying they were hacked so they could share data with others who want said data.
Power is intoxicating when you know the law is so far behind you.
Even if Legislators regulate them, it’s a win win for them.
Who could ever survive the regulations as a start up, then try and take market share?
 
So what? What are the hackers going to do with the data that Facebook is not already doing? Meh.
 
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