Facebook discloses security breach affecting 50 million users

Facebook discloses security breach affecting 50 million users

6 years ago
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https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/facebook-security-breach-50m-user-accounts

Facebook has disclosed a security incident affecting almost 50 million users’ accounts.

On Tuesday (25 September), the social network’s engineering team discovered that an attacker had exploited a vulnerability in the code behind a feature called “view as”, which lets users see how their profiles appear to others.