worst-ever safety breach that allowed an unknown grouping of hackers to bag hole-and-corner access tokens for millions of accounts yesteryear taking payoff of a flaw inwards the 'View As' feature.
At the fourth dimension of the initial disclosure, Facebook estimated that the number of users affected yesteryear the breach could make got been unopen to 50 million, though a novel update published today yesteryear the social media giant downgraded this number to xxx million.
Out of those xxx 1000000 accounts, hackers successfully accessed personal information from 29 1000000 Facebook users, though the companionship assured that the miscreants manifestly didn’t make out to access whatever third-party app data.
Facebook vice president of production administration Guy Rosen published a novel blog post Friday morning time to portion farther details on the massive safety breach, informing that the hackers stole information from those affected accounts, equally follows:
Moreover, hackers too were non able to access whatever individual message content, amongst ane notable exception—If a user is a Facebook page administrator who had received or exchanged messages from someone on Facebook, the content of those messages was exposed to the attackers.
Facebook said users tin banking concern fit whether they were affected yesteryear the breach yesteryear visiting the social network's Help Center.
Facebook too added that the companionship volition straight inform those xxx 1000000 users affected to explicate what information the attackers powerfulness make got accessed, along amongst steps they tin make got to assist protect themselves from whatever suspicious emails, text messages, or calls.
So far the identity of the hackers remains unclear, only Rosen said Facebook is working amongst the FBI, the USA Federal Trade Commission, Irish Gaelic Data Protection Commission, together with other government to investigate who powerfulness hold upwards behind the breach or if they were targeting anyone inwards particular.
At the fourth dimension of the initial disclosure, Facebook estimated that the number of users affected yesteryear the breach could make got been unopen to 50 million, though a novel update published today yesteryear the social media giant downgraded this number to xxx million.
Out of those xxx 1000000 accounts, hackers successfully accessed personal information from 29 1000000 Facebook users, though the companionship assured that the miscreants manifestly didn’t make out to access whatever third-party app data.
Here's How Facebook Classified the Stolen Data:
- For close fifteen 1000000 Facebook users, attackers accessed ii sets of information: usernames together with contact information including telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses together with other contact information depending on what users had on their profiles.
- For close fourteen 1000000 Facebook users, attackers accessed an fifty-fifty wider business office of their personal data, including the same ii sets of information mentioned above, along amongst other details users had on their profiles, similar gender, language, human relationship status, religion, hometown, electrical current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the final 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or pages they follow, together with the fifteen most recent searches.
- A remaining 1 1000000 Facebook users did non make got whatever personal information accessed yesteryear the attackers.
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Moreover, hackers too were non able to access whatever individual message content, amongst ane notable exception—If a user is a Facebook page administrator who had received or exchanged messages from someone on Facebook, the content of those messages was exposed to the attackers.
Here's How to Check If You Are One of xxx Million Affected Users
Facebook said users tin banking concern fit whether they were affected yesteryear the breach yesteryear visiting the social network's Help Center.
Facebook too added that the companionship volition straight inform those xxx 1000000 users affected to explicate what information the attackers powerfulness make got accessed, along amongst steps they tin make got to assist protect themselves from whatever suspicious emails, text messages, or calls.
So far the identity of the hackers remains unclear, only Rosen said Facebook is working amongst the FBI, the USA Federal Trade Commission, Irish Gaelic Data Protection Commission, together with other government to investigate who powerfulness hold upwards behind the breach or if they were targeting anyone inwards particular.