Well, that didn’t take long! Only days after it came out that shady consulting company Cambridge Analytica had harvested the Facebook data of millions of people, hackers seem to have already leaked a ton of it.
As The Guardian first reported:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
Via this link “http://bit.ly/CambridgeAnalyticaLeak” you can see exactly what Cambridge Analytica and Facebook know about you. Everything on that page is stored on Zuckerberg’s servers and can be analyzed by marketeers, political consultants and advertisers at will. Scary? You bet!
Now what?
The first thing to do after such a data breach is to make sure you know exactly how you were affected. We built this handy tool you can use to check how much of your information was in the breach. Just fill out this form and we’ll look it up for you:
What!
Wow, you weren’t seriously thinking of putting anything in that form, were you? Or maybe you did and you saw this image appear instead of a report on your stolen data:
Because you really have to be an idiot to still put any sort of personal information into any forms or apps you just found out about through Facebook.
Fortunately Forbidden Facts is a fake fake news site and we didn’t store any of your data. And we won’t sell it to any scary political consultants or marketing people, promise. Just be more careful next time!
(Oh, and that http://bit.ly/CambridgeAnalyticaLeak link? That just goes to a special page at Facebook that redirects you back to your own profile if you are logged in. But yes, marketeers and advertisers really can use almost all of the data found on it to target you with advertising based on your preferences. And that is scary and you should keep that in mind when sharing and liking things on Facebook.)
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