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by username223 3720 days ago
Mind-boggling indeed. I guess you could do worse by using your FB auth on Ashley Madison, but not by much.

> We are one FB bug away from some serious embarrassment.

FB has been squirreling away phone and credit card numbers for awhile, along with DoBs, family members, birth cities, and pet names (i.e. "answers to common security challenge questions"). I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this information has already been stolen, and is being used for things worth more than a bit of embarrassment.