30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You’re One of Them
Google initially estimated that the number of customers affected by the access token breach could have been 50 million, the company then downgraded the number to 30 million after the investigation.
- For about 15 million Facebook users, attackers accessed two sets of information: usernames and contact information including phone numbers, email addresses and other contact information depending on what users had on their profiles.
- For about 14 million Facebook users, attackers accessed an even wider part of their personal data, including the same two sets of information mentioned above, along with other details users had on their profiles, like gender, language, relationship status, religion, hometown, current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.
- A remaining 1 million Facebook users did not have any personal data accessed by the attackers.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/hack-facebook-account.html
Hi Haitao
Thanks for sharing. Even though there is a decrease on the number of affected users, users still need to pay attention to the incident. Users still need to secure their personal information on their Facebook accounts. They can turn on the two-factor authentication. It is a good way to protect the personal information from information leakage. In addition, paying attention to unusual logon location. If the accounts are logon in unusual location, users should change their passwords right away.
50 million, 30 million… whats a couple of million? 15 million have two sets o f information and 14 million have this compromised: gender, language, relationship status, religion, hometown, current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches
… and the 1 million remaining users are ok…
Well, it is nice to know I have better odd getting hacked then I ever do winning 800 million in the lotto.