Facebook Announces That Hackers Access Data Of 29-M Users
The world’s leading social media network Facebook announced that the personal data of 29 million users have been accessed by hackers.
Facebook revealed that up to 50 million accounts were originally affected by the cyber-attack enabling users to automatically log back onto the platform.
The social media giant revealed that the hackers were able to access the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of about 15 million people.
The cyber attackers whose identities are still unknown made a damaging attack for another 14 million users.
The hackers allegedly accessed additional personal data from users such as gender, hometown, birth date, religion, and the places they recently visited.
Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen clarified that no data were accessed from remaining one million users whose access token were stolen.
The company explained that Facebook-owned apps including Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, payments, or developer accounts were not affected by the breach.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that the company already created a precautionary step by resetting the access tokens for another 40 million accounts.
“While I’m glad we found this, fixed the vulnerability, and secured the accounts that may be at risk, the reality is we need to continue developing new tools to prevent this from happening in the first place,” Zuckerberg said quoted by GMA.
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