“We’ve revised our original guesstimate.”
Facebook
Says 14 Million Accounts Had Broad Array Of Personal Data Stolen
… Initially, the social media giant estimated
that 50 million accounts were affected by the hack but said it was
not clear whether any information had been stolen.
Facebook has revised
the total number of affected users down to around 30 million. But it
has also confirmed that hackers accessed personal details in most of
those cases — including, for about half of those users, recent
searches and locations.
… Fifteen million of those users had their
names and contact details — which could be email addresses or phone
numbers — accessed.
In a more serious breach, 14 million people had a
wider array of data accessed, including their gender, religion,
relationship status, birthday, current city and hometown, device
types, education and work history. Hackers also had access to those
users' last 15 searches, and the last 10 locations they either
checked into or were tagged in by someone else.
The 400,000 people whose accounts were first
hacked were most seriously compromised, with hackers viewing their
posts, their friend lists, their group memberships and the names of
recent message conversations (though not, in most cases, the contents
of those messages).
Every face counts? No more, “Hey! Look what I
found!” I’m going to sell opaque “Face Proof” evidence bags.
Cops Told
‘Don’t Look’ at New iPhones to Avoid Face ID Lock-Out
… Last month, Forbes
reported the first known instance of a search warrant being used
to unlock a suspect’s iPhone X with their own face, leveraging the
iPhone X’s Face ID feature.
But Face ID can of course also work against law
enforcement—too many failed attempts with the ‘wrong’ face can
force the iPhone to request a potentially harder to obtain passcode
instead. Taking advantage of legal differences in how passcodes are
protected, US law enforcement have forced people to unlock their
devices with not just their face but their fingerprints too. But
still, in a set of presentation slides obtained by Motherboard this
week, one company specialising in mobile forensics is telling
investigators not to even look at phones with Face ID, because they
might accidentally trigger this mechanism.
Perspective. One company’s “Wow!” is an
other’s “Oh? I hadn’t noticed.”
DuckDuckGo
hits high of 30 million searches in one day
It’s about the
same number of searches Google handles in 15 minutes.
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine,
achieved a new milestone by performing more than 30
million direct searches in a single day.
… Even at its latest peak, DuckDuckGo handles
a fraction of a percent of the 3.5
billion searches processed by Google every day.
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