This week in Breach: Facebook

Exploit: Web vulnerability.Facebook: Facebook is a social media platform that is one of the Internet’s most popular websites.Individual Risk: Moderate: The data accessed puts those affected by this breach at an increased risk for identity theft, spam and targeted phishing campaigns.Customers Impacted: 50 million.Facebook being such a large and widely-used social media platform means that it has data on a large amount of the population that uses the Internet. If people post information to this site, they could now be open to targeted phishing campaigns and spam.Read moreIn Other News:No Fly ZoneThe Dark Web is known to have all things illegal for sale, from medical information to illicit drugs. A new trend has been discovered by researchers where frequent flyer miles are being sold for significantly less than what legitimate buyers would pay. The average rate that a batch of frequent flyer miles sells for is $31, although the price depends on the airline and number of miles.https://www.hackread.com/stolen-frequent-flyer-miles-of-top-airlines-sold-on-dark-web/