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Old 23rd April 2021
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Default Brace yourselves. Facebook has a new mega-leak on its hands

From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021...unts-at-scale/ :
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Still smarting from last month's dump of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the social media giant has a new privacy crisis to contend with: a tool that, on a massive scale, links Facebook accounts with their associated email addresses, even when users choose settings to keep them from being public.

A video circulating on Tuesday showed a researcher demonstrating a tool named Facebook Email Search v1.0, which he said could link Facebook accounts to as many as 5 million email addresses per day. The researcher—who said he went public after Facebook said it didn't think the weakness he found was "important" enough to be fixed—fed the tool a list of 65,000 email addresses and watched what happened next.
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Facebook is a major privacy disaster for years.
Shall I really bemoan the users who still use it and might be hit by the 1000+xth leak?

Just don't use that **¡*!
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