Facebook is now a powerful company that has a huge impact on our society and that holds a lot of our data. As it turns out, a large number of them have been recently hacked.

Friday information

Last Friday, Facebook independently informed about the situation. The news that spread around the world shocked almost every user of this website. It turned out that hackers gained access to 29 million Facebook user data. It was originally thought that this number was higher and an estimated 50 million data loss was estimated, but eventually the above-mentioned figure was given. number.

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Emphasis on data

When creating an account on Facebook, we are obliged to provide it with all personal data that is necessary to confirm our identity. The company is very sensitive to fraudsters and the "hate" spreading on the Internet, which is why it cares so much about the correctness, reliability and truthfulness of the data we provide. The data that was stolen included names, surnames, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, but also in some cases dates of birth, place of residence and Internet search history. The company promised that each user would be immediately informed that their data was included in the group of stolen information.

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Investors want Zuckerberg to resign

The loss of such a large amount of data caused four of Facebook's largest investors to demand the resignation of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. One investor Scott Stringer believes that Facebook plays a very important role role in our society and its authorities must be independent and trusted by all. Unfortunately, this is the behavior of the founder there are very few companies likely. The requests and suggestions coming from investors are purely symbolic. Mark Zuckerberg has a stable position in the company, great influence on its fate, and his power is practically absolute.