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Facebook Data Breach Suggests the Public Sees Cybersecurity as Obsolete

Abstract: 
Facebook announced that it had a security breach which 600 million users’ passwords were available in a plain text file to 20,000 employees. This breach was hidden for 2 months and only came out after a whistleblower leaked information to a blog. The passwords were exposed to 9 million searches over the 7 years they were exposed yet, Facebook is not offering any compensation or notice to its users about potential loss related to the breach. Facebook’s repeated breaches suggest they have a culture with little focus on user security and little corporate care about the user’s data. But, with this repeated evidence of negligence users continue to use Facebook. Society may be shifting to where online security is no longer important to the user.
Author: 
Kalev Leetaru
Institution: 
Forbes
Year: 
2019
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Industry Focus: 
Internet & Cyberspace
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Events