Security News > 2018 > October > The ultimate fallout from the Facebook data breach could be massive
2018-10-03 16:03
Less than a week ago, Facebook announced that unknown attackers have managed to string together three bugs affecting the social media platform, which allowed them to steal access tokens of at least 50 million users – and likely more. The tokens allowed the attackers to take over victims’ Facebook accounts but could also have been used to log into accounts the victims opened on other websites and apps by using Facebook Login (i.e. using Facebook … More → The post The ultimate fallout from the Facebook data breach could be massive appeared first on Help Net Security.
News URL
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/cTRO7Dne7_w/
Related news
- Dutch Police: ‘State actor’ likely behind recent data breach (source)
- Comcast and Truist Bank customers caught up in FBCS data breach (source)
- Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users (source)
- Internet Archive data breach, defacement, and DDoS: Users’ data compromised (source)
- Fidelity Investments says data breach affects over 77,000 people (source)
- Fidelity Data Breach Exposes Data of Over 77,000 Customers (source)
- USDoD hacker behind National Public Data breach arrested in Brazil (source)
- Tech giant Nidec confirms data breach following ransomware attack (source)
- Insurance admin Landmark says data breach impacts 800,000 people (source)
- Henry Schein discloses data breach a year after ransomware attack (source)