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Facebook security breach 2018 |
Engineering team of facebook discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. All you need to know about the security breach in this month.
Facebook users are facing Major problems now days due to security breach, whenever Facebook users are posting or sharing their post to other groups on Facebook then that time Facebook blocks their account and asking for identification and for changing password. Facebook is saying that the reasons behind this action is security problems.
Facebook has finally clarified that a security issue has been discovered which had affected almost 50 millions Facebook accounts. Facebook told that all these 50 million accounts has been hacked by the hackers, The king of social media Facebook has also mentioned that the investigation is still in its initial stage, but it said that hackers have exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that impacted "View As" a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to other users.
"This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use later to take over people's accounts. Access tokens are the equivalent of digital keys that allow to keep people logged in to Facebook so they don't need to re-enter their password every time they use the app," reads Facebook newsroom post.
According to Facebook, they have fixed the problem and also informed the law enforcement department to take care of the issue. The company has reset the access token of the almost 50 million accounts which are affected by the security breach. Facebook says that
"We're also taking the precautionary step of resetting access tokens for another 40 million accounts that have been subject to a "View As" look-up in the last year. As a result, around 90 million people will now have to give identity to Facebook and log back into Facebook, or any of their apps that use Facebook Login. After they have logged back in, people will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened," reads the Facebook newsroom post.
To be on the safe from hackers Facebook has decided to temporarily turn off the "View As" option and in the meantime, the company will conduct a thorough security review. The company says, "This attack exploited the complex interaction of multiple issues in our code. It stemmed from a change we made to our video uploading feature in July 2017, which impacted "View As."
Facebook has just started their investigation and they are yet to determine whether these accounts are misused for gathering information or for some other reasons. The company is working hard to find the hacker behind the attack and understand the details.
To be safe from hackers you should always change your Facebook password after some interval of time and in password also don't use only numbers but you should use uppercase and lowercase letters so that your password will be strong.
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