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A Facebook hack from two years ago is what leads off today's show. Why are we covering this now? Because the information from more than 530 million Facebook accounts has just been noticed on a hacker Website.
By the summer of 2019, more than 2.4 billion people were active on Facebook every month. That's the time when the company says it found and fixed a flaw in its system that had allowed hackers to get the personal information of hundreds of millions. Facebook ID's, relationship status', bios, birthdays, all of this could be compromised.
Cyber security experts say the leaked information probably doesn't include social security numbers or credit card numbers which are most useful to hackers and identity thieves. But analysts say this is a reminder that no information that people share with online services can ever be guaranteed to stay private and that people should only ever share what they would accept appearing in a public database somewhere down the line.
As far as sharing personal info goes like your password, credit card and social security numbers, security officials say you should only do that if you have personally started the conversation or transaction not if a person or organization randomly asks you for it.
