For a subset of users, Facebook leaked "page likes, birthday, and current city".
Meanwhile, Equifax leaked the social security numbers of more than 145 million Americans, 200 thousand credit card numbers with expiration dates, and more than 175 thousand combined driver's licenses, tax/military ID cards, and passports.
Politicians and media have made Facebook a scapegoat to push their agendas, while others get away without consequence. The "embarrassing joke" is that the public buys into it.
Meanwhile, Equifax leaked the social security numbers of more than 145 million Americans, 200 thousand credit card numbers with expiration dates, and more than 175 thousand combined driver's licenses, tax/military ID cards, and passports.
In fact, Equifax has a long history of incompetence in this regard. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Equifax#Security_failings
Where's the big fine for Equifax? http://reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1JN2YH
...Or the countless others who leaked much more sensitive data (medical records, for example) and at greater scale? http://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
Politicians and media have made Facebook a scapegoat to push their agendas, while others get away without consequence. The "embarrassing joke" is that the public buys into it.