The massive Facebook hack might have affected other apps and websites, too and this is report was coming few hours after the 50 million Facebook account has being compromised. So if you account is hack that means, app and website that is using the Facebook sign-up and login has also being affected.<\/p>\n
Hours after Facebook announced on Friday\u00a0a huge data breach\u00a0that affected at least 50 million users, the news got worse.<\/p>\n
In a conference call with reporters\u2014Facebook\u2019s second of the day, after the first one left many questions unanswered\u2014the company\u2019s vice president of product, Guy Rosen, said that the hackers could have also gained access to users\u2019 accounts on other apps and websites, beyond Facebook itself, via Facebook Login. That\u2019s the feature of Facebook that allows you to sign up for, and log in to, all kinds of other online services using your Facebook credentials. For users whose Facebook accounts were hacked, the company confirmed, it\u2019s possible that those third-party accounts could have been breached as well.<\/p>\n
The follow-up call was meant to clarify some of the details of the breach, which is almost certainly the most significant in Facebook\u2019s history. In it, Rosen explained how three separate bugs combined to give hackers a path to full control of users\u2019 Facebook accounts. They gained access not by stealing users\u2019 passwords, but via a sort of digital key called an \u201caccess token\u201d that\u2019s meant to let you into your account on another device (say, your phone) automatically when you\u2019re already logged in on another (say, your laptop).<\/p>\n
The good news is that the hackers don\u2019t have anyone\u2019s Facebook passwords\u2014so even users who were affected by the breach don\u2019t necessarily have to change those. The bad news: They could theoretically have used that same token to gain access to some of users\u2019 other online accounts, depending on how the relevant apps and sites handle Facebook access tokens. It was not immediately clear whether the hackers\u2014who remain unknown\u2014actually took advantage of this, nor how easy it would have been for them to do so.<\/p>\n
Any such connections should have been broken when Facebook reset the access tokens of the affected users, beginning Thursday night. That would have logged users out of those third-party apps and sites.<\/p>\n
Facebook also clarified that users affected by the Facebook breach who had Instagram or Oculus accounts linked to their Facebook account would need to delink and relink those accounts. One piece of good news: Whatsapp was apparently not affected. The story is still developing, and more details are likely to emerge in the days to come.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s already one conclusion we can make: There was a time when Facebook harbored ambitions to be a sort of \u201cuniversal login\u201d for sites and apps everywhere\u2014like a driver\u2019s license for the online world. That never quite came to pass, but it did get pretty far along. This should be the final answer to the question of whether it was ever a good idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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