Millions of accounts affected in latest Facebook hack

Update 2018-10-18: According to the Wall Street Journal, the hack on Facebook was perpetrated by spammers rather than a nation state. Facebook also revised its numbers down, saying that about 30 million accounts had been compromised. Facebook announced earlier today that its social network had be...

Facebook Data Breach Impacts Almost 50 Million Accounts

Facebook on Friday said that hackers have exploited a flaw in its platform that left the access tokens of almost 50 million Facebook accounts ripe for the taking. Access tokens are the digital keys that keep users logged into Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they...

Hackers Stole 50 Million Facebook Users' Access Tokens Using Zero-Day Flaw

Logged out from your Facebook account automatically? Well you're not alone… Facebook just admitted that an unknown hacker or a group of hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in its social media platform that allowed them to steal secret access tokens for more than 50 million accounts...