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Facebook Hacked, 50 Million Users Affected

  • September 28, 2018
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Facebook "discovered a security issue" that the company said allowed attackers to "take over people's accounts."

 
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Jason Koebler  Sep 28 2018 

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Facebook disclosed that hackers stole data from 50 million people on Friday.
 
In a blog post, Facebook’s vice president of product management Guy Rosen said that the company’s engineering team “discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.”
 
“It’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As,” a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else,” Rosen wrote. “This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts.”
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    Facebook Security Bug Affects 90M Users

     
    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/facebook-security-bug-affects-90m-users/
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    By Eduard Kovacs on October 03, 2018 Facebook has shared another update on the hacker attack disclosed last week. The social media giant says there is no evidence that the attackers accessed any third-party apps.
     
    Facebook revealed on September 28 that it had reset the access tokens for 90 million accounts, including 50 million that were directly impacted and 40 million deemed at risk.
     
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    Company said 29 million of the 30 million also had personal data scraped by the attackers.
     
    12th October 2018, By Catalin Cimpanu
     
    Facebook said today the number of users who had their Facebook authentication tokens stolen in a security breach that took place last month is actually 30 million, and not 50 million, as the company initially announced.
     
    Attackers stole authentication tokens for these 30 million accounts, but they also stole additional data for 29 million, Facebook said.
     
    • For 15 million users, attackers harvested name and contact details (phone number, email, or both, depending on what people had on their profiles).
    • For 14 million users, attackers harvested the same info as above, plus username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.
    • For 1 million, attackers only collected access tokens.
     
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