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.
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