Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram hacked

[tv1217]

Fartbook is back up

 

[Cameramonkey]

And I’m not seeing a single mention of the outage there. Hmmmm. Too soon?

 

[Jeepster48439]

It's like nothing happened.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Stock is back up after hours. Also i can't post yet. Still errors

 

[Denny347]

So, the "dark web" is a real thing. Huh. I thought that only existed on NCIS ...

Any way to confirm this is a hack? It would explain FB being down, likely deliberately pulled the plug to sever the hackers access.

Hack is 100% rumor until proven otherwise. Might be true, might be BS. As far as pulling the plug, WSJ is not reporting it as a way to combat a hack. WSJ is not perfect but their reporting is usually pretty solid.

 

[indykid]

So some programmer for Facebook probably put a zero where a one should have been, and to some the world came to an end. But amazingly, Facebook and their attachments went down, but the world continued. Glad I am one of those who doesn't take Facebook as anything more than a free amusement theme park.

 

[Tombs]

So some programmer for Facebook probably put a zero where a one should have been, and to some the world came to an end. But amazingly, Facebook and their attachments went down, but the world continued. Glad I am one of those who doesn't take Facebook as anything more than a free amusement theme park.

I'd heard rumor that something to do with routing was wiped out.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Looks like the password thing, is a thing. Maybe coincidental, probably not. I'm changing passwords (and adding MFA when possible, just in case)

Hackers claim to have more than 1.5 billion Facebook users’ personal data

Recently, a post was made on a popular internet forum known to be frequented by hackers. It offered the personal data of more than 1.5B users of the popular Facebook social media platform.

thepostmillennial.com

 

[qwerty]

I'd heard rumor that something to do with routing was wiped out.

Ctrl-X sometimes does not work, and you don't know until you Ctrl-V.

 

[BigRed]

Anything to worry about if you never had a fb account?

 

[femurphy77]

Did anybody notice anything strange with Facebook yesterday?

Yeah, neither did I.

 

[rooster]

It’s back on. Doesn’t change the password problem. Change em folks

 

[Expat]

I changed mine yesterday, then in the evening when it came back up, my old password was needed. So I assume they loaded a back up.

 

[foszoe]

Anything to worry about if you never had a fb account?

Anybody else around you have Facebook may have taken your picture and then posted your name on it from the photo recognition?

 

[Keith_Indy]

Looks like the password thing, is a thing. Maybe coincidental, probably not. I'm changing passwords (and adding MFA when possible, just in case)

Hackers claim to have more than 1.5 billion Facebook users’ personal data

Recently, a post was made on a popular internet forum known to be frequented by hackers. It offered the personal data of more than 1.5B users of the popular Facebook social media platform.

thepostmillennial.com

Details, the devil is always in the details...

This data has been obtained by "scraping" rather than hacking, according to the post itself. Scraping is a process whereby bots crawl the internet looking for information and simply correlates, classifies and organizes it. This means that no hacking is necessary.

This latest data treasure trove supposedly being sold on the darkweb is from SCRAPING, which is basically downloading everything publicly available from a website.

I used to do that regularly back in the 90's over dial-up. Was the easiest way to gather a bunch of information, say survival/military manuals from somewhere. You could set your program to do deep dives into every link from a website, and pace the downloads so you didn't kill your bandwidth completely.

P.S. - NOTE my post #27 - from Krebs on Security "Madory said at approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records." I'd hate to be whatever DevOps person did that. I doubt, "ooopps my bad, I didn't mean to reset it" is going to fly with the board of directors, well depending on the seniority and intersectionality of the person involved.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Anything to worry about if you never had a fb account?

OK Boomer.

 

[rooster]

So what evidence did zuck get rid of during the outage?

 

[Expat]

There is now no record that the whistleblower was ever employed by the FB.

 

[Keith_Indy]

There is now no record that the whistleblower was ever employed by the FB.

Not sure if that was sarcasm or not (who can tell these days.) Of course, FB can wipe whatever data they want off their servers, but there are other sources of "truth" out there...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen/

 

[snapping turtle]

Facebook might have contractors doing the router updates and changes. If so that contractor is most likely in hot water I doubt it was a true FAKEbook employee. They are big enough to have that person updating router tables as an employee who knows.

I was told even the access control for the server area doors was not working.