Facebook hack victims will not get ID theft protection
– Dave Lee
On Friday it revealed 14 million users had highly personal information stolen by hackers. It included search history, location data and information about relationships, religion and more. This information can be used by cyber criminals to create social engineering based theft programs on the 14 million affected users.
Typically, companies affected by large data breaches – such as Target, in 2013 – provide access to credit protection agencies and other methods to lower the risk of identity theft. But a Facebook spokeswoman told the BBC it would not be taking this step “at this time”. Users would instead be directed to the website’s help section. The spokesperson would not say if the help pages in question had been updated since the company discovered the recent breach.
To all of you in this class, remember this. Facebook wants to handle your money. They already have options for P2P. Would you trust a company who wants to handle your money but has no competent for cybersecurity NOR provide theft protection to their users EVEN after they’ve been hacked. I say this regularly. If someone give you something for free, then you are the time being sold.