Facebook hit by massive hack - 50 million users affected

[Jamie McKane]

Facebook hit by massive hack - 50 million users affected

Facebook has published a security update detailing how its systems have been compromised.

Its engineering team discovered a security breach on Thursday which affects "almost 50 million accounts".

 

[Solarion]

 

[Swa]

Nah, don't have to worry about my fake accounts.

 

[SilverCode]

This means that around 90 million accounts will be logged out of Facebook, and users will have to log back in

Or they could remain logged out, and there would be 90 million happier people in the world.

 

[InfidelGastro]

That reminds me... I haven't checked my FB account in many, many moons. I'd suppose I'd better do so sometime. To me, FB is something that I'm told that I must have but I'm still yet to discover any functional use for it.

 

[gregmcc]

Hardly use it but have just enabled 2FA, and now on every other app that supports it.

 

[InfidelGastro]

It’s like that when you’re the only one viewing your own posts.

And you should know. Don't fret, maybe one day someone will take the time to gloss over yours... Even give one or two likes.

 

[Dan C]

I wouldn't know, I don't have FB LOL.

 

[InfidelGastro]

I wouldn't know, I don't have FB LOL.

Smart boy

 

[2026]

So the view as function was giving out user tokens to anyone that asked. Further more it sounds like these tokens never expired?

Looking for trouble, someone must have raised this as a concern at facebook and it was ignored.

 

[The_ONE]

Would it affect me if my account is deactivated?

 

[LazyLion]

Everytime we have an article about FB on MyBroadband, we have to wade through pages and pages of people telling us that they don't use FB. What are we supposed to do with that useless information?

 

[The_ONE]

Everytime we have an article about FB on MyBroadband, we have to wade through pages and pages of people telling us that they don't use FB. What are we supposed to do with that useless information?

I was asking a genuine question, my account is not deleted, it is just deactivated.

 

[LazyLion]

I was asking a genuine question, my account is not deleted, it is just deactivated.

Wasn't referring to you, your post popped up after I hit post.

 

[2026]

Would it affect me if my account is deactivated?

Depends on the criteria on issuing the tokens and their systems.

Our systems not allow issuing of tokens for disabled accounts (not even impersonation by admin)... but who knows what facebook does with their account management.