Scraped data of 1.5 BILLION Facebook users offered for sale on the dark web – reports Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has another headache: The personal data of 1.5 billion customers, scraped from his platform, is reportedly being offered for sale on the dark web. Oct 4, 2021 20:21
Is it really personal data when the person willingly gives it away to the world? For those that don't know what scrapping is.... It's an automated script that reads a website and extracts whatever data from it that it's programed to do. This is not 'hacking' in and getting private stuff. This is simply reading a website that anyone is free to read, but doing it automatically and usually quickly.
Me either. I've been wondering when those Russian Ransomware gangs would go after big tech. I congratulate them!
