Security News > 2018 > September > Hackers Steal 50 Million Facebook Users’ Access Tokens Using Zero-Day Flaw
2018-09-28 17:48
2018 has been a terrible year for Facebook. 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 token for more than 50 million accounts. In a brief blog post published Friday, Facebook revealed that its security team discovered the attack three days ago (on 25 September),
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