| ▲ | johnyzee 3 hours ago |
| "Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts had been compromised. [...] The compromises allowed the hackers to take over the person's entire Instagram and any linked accounts, including obtaining contact information, dates of birth, and profile information, as well as the ability to access the person's posts, direct messages, and account activity [...] the hacks began around April 17 and lasted until this week [...]" This is staggering. |
|
| ▲ | simpaticoder an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| No fan of Meta, but I think "staggering" is properly determined by the percent of users affected rather than the absolute number. It's staggering to an SMB with 100k customers; it's bad, but not "staggering" to an internet juggernaught with 3B MAU. |
| |
| ▲ | Gigachad an hour ago | parent [-] | | Twenty _thousand_ people had their personal data stolen, many of them relied on these accounts to run their business, many put at risk of hackers impersonating them. Meta in a fair world should be forced to financially compensate these people. They built a world where many people basically have to use their products for their jobs and then failed to look after the data because they wanted to replace customer support with a vibe coded AI tool. | | |
| ▲ | simpaticoder 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Over forty _thousand_ people die every year in the US from car accidents. Plenty of other preventable injustices happen in all areas of life. I wonder how many fathers are unjustly taken away from their children by a corrupt family court system, how many people die of treatable diseases denied treatment by insurance companies, how many kids lose interest in school because of bad teachers, how many customer service workers endure daily abuse because they need the job. It's not that the breach isn't bad, or that Meta is a sympathetic company. It's bad and they're not. I just find it hard to feel outraged about this particular incident affected 1 out of every 10k users of a social media site when we live in a world with citizen's united, qualified immunity, and $300 insulin. | | |
| ▲ | Gigachad 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The US car deaths stat is also completely insane and way higher than other countries. I can recognize that at scale, securing every account is a very difficult task, but with scale comes responsibility. Meta plays fast and loose rushing in unsupervised vibeslop agents to save a penny, they should be significantly penalized for such a massive failure, particularly for how long this exploit was live and for how the victims were unable to get in contact with any human at Meta to restore their account. | | |
|
|
|
|
| ▲ | smrtinsert an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This could avoid flagging by Meta explicitly allow bot traffic to do stuff with impunity on its services. Don't tell me an army of people went through and compromised acct by acct. |
|
| ▲ | Lionga an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| One can only hope EU gives them a GDPR fine very close to the limit of 4% of global turnover. But when EU is actually need to protect customer I think they will fail. |
| |
| ▲ | mvkel an hour ago | parent [-] | | Incidents like this show how unenforceable GDPR is, and how it's been a net negative for users since its inception. It's idealogical back-patting, toothless when it matters. | | |
| ▲ | Gigachad 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | After the GDPR every website added an option to export your personal data and to delete your account. Something most were missing at the time. It was an immediate and massive win. |
|
|
|
| ▲ | sieabahlpark 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| [dead] |
