Facebook have announced that around 30 million user accounts were accessed on its recent data breach using the ‘view as’ feature to steel access tokens.
Of those, about 15 million had their contact information stolen, another 14 million had contact, personal information stolen including username, gender, location, language, relationship status, religion, hometown, current city, birthdate, education, work, places where they checked in or were tagged, website, people or Pages followed, recent searches and device types used to access Facebook. The rest of the accounts compromised didn’t have any information stolen.
Facebook took the precaution of login 90 million users out of their accounts in order to invalidate the login tokens, and they are starting to make users aware of their account was one of the ones accessed.
If you don’t want to wait for Facebook to let you know, they’ve put up a page that will tell you immediately.
This is the only way you can find out if your account was accessed, any messages that claim typing in a certain status massage or posting a messenger to your friends, or installing an app will inform you or protect you from further hacks, are total rubbish!
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