Earlier today, the Facebook he announced at blog of the company that hackers managed to gain access to tokens from about 50 million users.
Please note that the first complaint was filed that blames the company for its apparent inability to protect its users' data.
But data leaked outside the connection tokens?
Despite posting on the blog informing us of the breach and interception of login tokens, Facebook has provided no further details about the hack.
Who might be responsible? Personal user data leaked? Why does the company believe that only login tokens from 50 million accounts were leaked? In addition, the company said another 40 million may be affected accounts (friends of the 50 million leaked accounts), without saying how he reached his conclusion.
According to Facebok technicians, the social network made a change to code in July 2017 in the “View as” feature. The exploit was reportedly first activated on September 16. So September 16 is the day Facebook believes hackers began mass exploiting this flaw to gain access to the feature “View as"And gain user access tokens for users of the company.
The access token collection feature has caused massive traffic on Facebook servers. and Facebook technicians realized what was happening on September 26. They began to investigate 27 in September, and they announced their findings this morning.
All of the above were published by the company and there seems to be a gap from September 16th to the 28th when the leakage of tokens.
The size of a company like Facebook does not allow the disclosure of an incident that affects millions of users after so many days.
Of course, the company, as it has stated in its blog, took so many days to locate it vulnerability. But once again, the size of a company like Facebook does not allow for the disclosure of an incident affecting so many millions of users after so many days.
On 12 for about a day hackers could log in to user accounts and collect all their personal data. So the first complaint to the company is not surprising. We will probably have to wait for more.
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