How to Tell If Your Account Was 1 of the 50 Million Exposed by the latest Facebook Security Breach
Facebook reset account logins for tens of millions of accounts Friday, alongside its announcement that it found a serious security flaw had let hackers potentially control user accounts. How can you tell if you were in this breach? And, more importantly, what can you do about it?
If you log into Facebook from a smartphone app or Web browser and have to re-enter your login information, you may have been affected by the breach—but maybe not. Facebook said 50 million users’ accounts had “tokens” grabbed that would allow attackers to gain access to an account without a username and password.
However, Facebook reset account sessions for another 40 million users for whom it has a record that someone used this exploitable feature, even if it believes that the use wasn’t malicious.
