Is Facebook really safe?
Well, these days we came across with tons of news related to Facebook account hacks and all.
But there are some notorious hackers who swiped the sleep of Facebooks security researchers team.
The breach was discovered on Tuesday and Facebook immediately informed the police after that.
In short how their information is displayed to friends or friends of friends or to anyone.
Hackers discovered so many bugs in this feature which ultimately allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens.
These Facebook access tokens could be used to take over peoples accounts and they did exactly this.
Facebook has temporarily disabled this feature to investigate more on it.
In the face of constant attacks.
He also posted about this attack on his Facebook account
Who got affected?
Offcourse facebook wont be ever admitting who were those 50 million users.
But they have informed Irish data regulators where Facebooks European subsidiary is based.
The users who are affected were prompted to re-log-in on Friday as they dont have any other option.
The company also said that users need not worry about the password change.
Facebook team has just started their investigation process.
They are not sure if the accounts are misused or not.
They also dont know who did that?
and from where they belong from.
At last, the flaw is fixed.
Confirmed by the head security of the firm Guy Rosen.
He also said that all the affected accounts had been reset.
Plus they even did the same for another 40 million as a precautionary step.
source: www.techworm.net