Oakland News Now – Facebook Hacked – Facebook.com Domain Is For Sale Now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tweets “How Much?” – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this content. (Stay tuned for a vlog and post on the implications for Oakland politicians.)
Facebook Hacked – Facebook.com Domain Is For Sale Now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Tweets “How Much?”
Let’s start with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweet:
how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9
— jack (@jack) October 4, 2021
And this one with Jack saying, or tweeting, that Signal App is “what’s up”:
Signal is WhatsUp
🆙 https://t.co/zpRrxf9qKP https://t.co/T23l7Ih6NQ
— jack (@jack) October 4, 2021
It seems that Facebook (and Instagram and What’s App) has been hacked: its DNA records removed by someone with access, and now the Facebook.com domain has been (or was) placed up for sale.
On top of that, the information of billion of users is now being reportedly sold in a hacker forum (no joke):
🚨BREAKING🚨
Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum. Data contains users’ names, emails, phone numbers, locations, gender, and user ID.
It appears $FB was hacked.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 4, 2021
As TweakTown.com reported:
Now, this is where things get worse: over 1.5 billion users have had their information up for sale on a hacker forum, with the personal data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users now up for grabs. You can buy it right now, either in a lump — 1.5 billion users’ information — or maybe you just want 17 million users’ information.
1 million accounts would cost you $5000 or so, which means 1.5 billion Facebook users’ data is only going to cost you $7.5 million. Today, of all days, where Facebook has gone down, a whistleblower has exposed the social media giant, and their stock price is crashing… 1,500,000,000 users’ data gets leaked and goes up for sale.
This is a massive disaster for many, even as its a boon for OaklandNewsNow.com and the news blog sites owned by ZENNIE62MEDIA, Inc.
Since digging into that pushes us to a different story, for now, let’s consider how we got here:
Frances Haugen blows the whistle on Facebook and dumps a trove of documents online, some posted with the Wall Street Journal. On 60 Minutes, the former Facebook employee says that Facebook allowed hate speech because it produced the highest level of engagement.
Then, apparently that evening, it went down – and off.
UPDATE: The site officially went down at 11:39 AM EST according to KrebsonSecurity.com:
Doug Madory is director of internet analysis at Kentik, a San Francisco-based network monitoring company. 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. BGP is a mechanism by which Internet service providers of the world share information about which providers are responsible for routing Internet traffic to which specific groups of Internet addresses.
In simpler terms, sometime this morning Facebook took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties. As a result, when one types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find Facebook.com, and so returns an error page.
UPDATE: Facebook Employees Reportedly Locked Out Of Buildings At Headquarters
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021
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