FTC Releases Alert about Facebook Breach Involving 50 Million Users

FTC's Division of Consumer and Business Education issued an alert to all Facebook users after the security incident affecting the social network which forced it to reset access tokens for 90 million possibly affected accounts.

On September 28, Guy Rosen, Facebook's VP of Product Management, made an announcement detailing how around 50 million Facebook user accounts were affected by a security issue in the "View As" feature introduced via a video uploading code change from July 2017.

The attackers were reportedly able to get their hands on access tokens which can be used to take over all affected Facebook user accounts, allowing the threat actors to use the Facebook accounts without the need to re-enter the password each time.

Subsequently, Facebook reset the access tokens of all 50 million users affected by the security issue to protect... (read more)

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