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Facebook Discovered Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Accounts, Stock Slides

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Facebook said that on September 25 it discovered a security breach which affected almost 50 million accounts. The company said it's investigating the breach, which allowed hackers to take over a person's account.

In the statement, Facebook said that "attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that impacted "View As", a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people's accounts. Access tokens are the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don't need to re-enter their password every time they use the app."


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