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Facebook Is Breached by Hackers, Putting 50 Million Users’ Data at Risk

Sourcehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

Parties InvolvedFacebook,

Severity

High

Disclosed PubliclySeptember 28, 2018

Initial DiscoverySeptember 24, 2018

Leaked InformationNames, Address, Facebook User data

Attack VectorApplication Layer

Tags

PIIAccount Takeover

September 28, 2018

Facebook Is Breached by Hackers, Putting 50 Million Users’ Data at Risk

Press Coveragehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

September 28, 2018

Security Update

Official Statementhttps://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

October 12, 2018

An Update on the Security Issue

Official Statementhttps://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/update-on-security-issue/