It’s not new when we hear news about big social media platforms being hacked like the recent Facebook Hack. When you are managing really big servers there is always a big chance of being hacked. News of a hack made waves Friday among the social network’s more than 2 billion monthly active users.
An estimated 50 million accounts whose access tokens were compromised. About 40 million more users whose accounts were reverted to a Facebook reset as a security step. An estimated 90 million users were logged out of their Facebook accounts on Friday.
Facebook Hack and how it happened
The vulnerability started in the site’s “View As” feature, which lets users see what their profile looks like from someone else’s view. This feature allowed the attacker to steal access tokens that would provide entry to people’s personal accounts, Facebook said in a blog post.
The affected “access tokens” are what keep users logged into Facebook on their devices. This feature saves the time from having to re-enter the password. Because of the hack, Facebook has already reset these access tokens.
Are you Affected?
To make sure that if you are secure, all you have to do is check if you were logged out. This means that if you were affected by the hack, you’ll notice that you have been automatically logged out of your Facebook account. As well as any other apps that use Facebook to log in.
You will to have to log back into your account, you do not have to change your passwords.
Affected users “will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened”. So if you were not automatically logged out and don’t get a notification after login then you are dandy. But if bad luck happens and you do get a notification after logging in then change your password ASAP.
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