US Facebook 2018 Hacking (Q11939)
From Open Risk Manual
A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | US Facebook 2018 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2018
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Facebook believes that spammers, and not a nation-state, are responsible for a devastating recent hack that stole the personal information of 29 million Facebook users, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The report, which cites anonymous sources, says that Facebook has tentatively concluded the hackers were spammers who were posing as a digital marketing company. The hack, which Facebook first disclosed in September, is the largest breach suffered by the social network. The hackers were able to exploit vulnerabilities in Facebooks code to get their hands on access tokens essentially digital keys that give them full access to compromised users accounts and then scraped users data. Among the user data stolen by hackers were birthdates, phone numbers, search histo (English)
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