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Niburu-Illyria t1_iy4t2b9 wrote

Reply to comment by sassergaf in Facebook Parent Meta Fined $276 Million in Europe for Data-Scraping Leak by bubblehack3r

Forgive my ignorance, but how does stuff like this end up affecting the average citizen? I have Nord and whatnot, but i dont really know to what effect this kind of data scraping /does/. Genuinely interested!

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dkran t1_iy5cee2 wrote

Sold and combined properly through data brokers this could include everything from your average bank account balance, income, debt, name, address, phone number, interests, interests you may have on the sly, etc.

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5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 t1_iy5p3jt wrote

its combined and aggregated somewhere and then bad actors will try to break into your accounts using that information.

Your email from one site, password from another, geoIP, profile picture, etc.

Best practice is use a password manager w a diff pass on each site, use 2fac where you can

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