A new Facebook security breach has been reported. Social network Facebook’s worst nightmare has come true. On Friday, Sept 28, 2018, the social network disclosed a massive security breach, discovered on September 25, had impacted almost 50 million user accounts. This, by the way folks, is very different from the data breach of Cambridge Analytica, in which a 3rd-party company was allegedly able to access data.
FB has claimed the loopholes that enabled the attack have since been closed. Wired.com quoted FB as saying the attackers could see everything in a victim’s profile, but whether messages were seen or not remains unclear. This episode is one of many reported such Facebook security breach in the last year.
Facebook automatically logged out 90 million Facebook users from their accounts Friday morning, accounting both for the 50 million that Facebook knows were affected, & an additional 40 million that potentially could have been. Such Facebook security break-ins are now beginning to worry users across the world & if FB does not watch out, it could lead to some very serious issues for this powerful social network.
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Facebook’s Worst Security Breach Hammers User Trust Once Again – Bloomberg
http://news.google.com Sep 29, 2018
Facebook has since solved the vulnerability, but it doesn’t yet have answers to crucial questions. It’s unclear what the hackers did with the access. Were they looking fo …
How to remove your phone number from Facebook (and prevent targeted ads) – CNET
http://news.google.com Sep 28, 2018
If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure your Facebook account, you likely, at some point, gave Facebook your phone number. 2FA adds an almost impenetrable la …
A hacker threatened to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page – The Verge
http://news.google.com Sep 28, 2018
Update September 28th, 3:13PM ET: The hacker, Chang Chi-yuang has decided to cancel the attack, he announced in a Facebook post. “I am canceling my live feed, I have repor …
Facebook faces class-action lawsuit over massive new hack – The Verge
http://news.google.com Sep 28, 2018
Facebook is already facing immense fallout from revelations this morning that a hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of the social network to steal account cr …
