Facebook have announced that 50 million Facebook accounts were compromised. Was yours? Just yesterday as well, we give you a news on how a hacker is saying is going to live stream the deletion of MarkZuckerberg\u2019s\u00a0Facebook account on the 30th of September, 2018, now we are having this news same day that 50 million Facebook accounts were compromised.<\/p>\n
Your\u00a0Facebook account may have been hacked\u00a0this week. The social networking giant on Friday said \u201calmost 50 million accounts\u201d were compromised, a discovery its engineers made on Tuesday. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n
According to Facebook, \u201cattackers exploited a vulnerability in\u00a0Facebook\u2019s\u00a0code that affected View As, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens, which they could then use to take over people\u2019s accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n
An access token keeps you logged into Facebook so you don\u2019t need to enter your password each time you visit the site or app. If an attacker has your token, then he or she has access to your account.<\/p>\n
Odds are it was not. While 50 million sounds like a big number, it\u2019s a small percentage of the more than two billion active Facebook accounts. If you go to your Facebook page and don\u2019t need to log in, then your account is safe \u2014 it was not breached. If you go to your Facebook page and find that you are logged out, then your account may have been breached.<\/p>\n
In response to discovering the attack, Facebook reset the access tokens of the 50 million accounts it found to be compromised, which will require those users to enter their password to log back in. Facebook also took the precaution to reset access tokens of an additional 40 million accounts for those users who used the \u201cView As\u201d feature in the last year.<\/p>\n
If your account was affected, Facebook will notify you in a message at the top of your News Feed when you log back in to explain what happened.<\/p>\n
Facebook has also temporarily turned off the View As feature while it investigates.<\/p>\n
According to Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0himself, \u201cWe patched the security vulnerability to prevent this attacker or any other from being able to steal additional access tokens.\u201d The company, however, still does not know who is responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n
Facebook says there\u2019s no need to change your password, but it certainly wouldn\u2019t hurt to pick a new one. After all, the\u00a0Cambridge Analytica fiasco\u00a0was worse than Facebook initially believed or admitted.<\/p>\n
You could also just log out of your Facebook account and then log back in without needing to change your password. This simple action will reset your access token, which should put any immediate worries to rest while we wait for Facebook to share more information about the attack.<\/p>\n
To log out of Facebook on all of your devices, go to the\u00a0Security and Login pageand in the\u00a0Where You\u2019re Logged In\u00a0section, click\u00a0See More\u00a0and then click\u00a0Log Out Of All Sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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