Check if you are affected here: https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice
(posting because it took 10+ mins to find it - many media outlets are not linking directly to it)
Does deleting Facebook mean I no longer have a right to know if my data was breached while I was a member?
If you're in Europe you might have some some recourse (GDPR and such), but if you're from the US you are most likely out of luck.
Regardless, Facebook might have a detailed profile on you but not know your name. I doubt there is much you can do.
[1]: https://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-a...
People don't want to because they want their content to be "evergreen" and they think that if there's a date that's more than a year or so old, people will disregard / discount the content. So by default many blog CMSs default to not showing the date of any articles.
/grump
You can thank SEO for that. Something about older content being less "relevant"
They might intend to repeatedly update the second one, which might be a reason not to put a published date on it.
""" Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue? Based on what we've learned so far, your Facebook account has not been impacted by this security incident. If we find more Facebook accounts were impacted, we will reset their access tokens and notify those accounts. """
Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?
Yes. Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, attackers accessed the following Facebook account information:
Name.
Email addresses.
Phone number.
Account passwords.
Payment card or credit card information.Additionally, the attackers also accessed other account information, including:
- The following information associated with your Facebook account:
- Username.
- Date of birth.
- Gender.
- Types of the devices you've used to access Facebook.
- The language you choose to use Facebook in.
- If you previously added this specific information to your Facebook account, it was also accessed:
- Relationship status.
- Religion.
- Hometown.
- Current city.
- Work.
- Education.
- Website.
- The 10 most recent locations you've checked in to or been tagged in. These locations are determined by the places named in the posts, such as a landmark or restaurant, not location data from a device.
- The 15 most recent searches you've entered into the Facebook search bar.
- People or Pages you follow on Facebook.The data you listed is semi-public in my case.
Like if I say "I'm calling from Samsung about your SMA500FU, phone number #####, ..." that gives me a lot of trust for a phish.
I wonder, say, how many phones I could get by mailing people an envelope saying their phone was at risk of exploding, sending corresponding texts, etc..
Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?
Yes. Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, attackers accessed the following Facebook account information:
Name.
Email addresses.
Phone number.
Account passwords.
Payment card or credit card information.I get the same message that I'm not likely impacted
IIRC that was on Facebook Lite on Android. I don't know my password so didn't log in at the time, but it just worked the next time I tried.
Might be unrelated.
Yet another reason they should email affected users, guess they care more about not publicizing bad information than taking responsibility.
As one of those people, this summer I encountered a spotify issue where my spotify would randomly start playing Cannabis Club ATL. Others had the same issue. Perhaps unrelated, too difficult to tell, especially if FB doesn't consider me an active user.
If they still store some user details (which it seems they do) and then this leaks - absolutely.
What about those who have never been users yet Facebook stores plenty of information about?
I understand in general that only "pure" facebook users were impacted and that "WhatsApp" users aren't?
(not sure how integrated WhatsApp is with the Facebook infrastructure - I do use WhatsApp but I don't have a Facebook account)