50 Million Facebook Users Data Exposed Online Including Those From India

In yet another massive security breach, Facebook has confirmed the hacking of 50 million users on its portal. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, this massive security breach is made by some unknown hackers and a significant number of accounts affected could be from India. The precautionary measure taken by the social media giant has impacted another 40 million users, Zuckerberg said Friday. In a conference call with reporters, he did not give a country-wise of the user accounts hit by the data breach. However, a significant number of affected users are expected to be from India, given that the company has the maximum 270 million users in the country. It has 2 billion global users.

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50 Million Accounts on Facebook Found Affected by the Breach

Facebook did not immediately respond to a PTI question on the number of accounts affected in India. “On Tuesday afternoon, our engineering team found an attack affecting up to 50 million accounts on Facebook. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in the code of the View As feature which is a privacy feature that lets people see what their Facebook profile would look like to another person,” Zuckerberg said.

“The vulnerability allowed the attackers to steal Facebook access tokens – which are the equivalent of a digital key – which the attackers could have used to take over or access people’s accounts,” he said.

The investigation into the Incident is Still in Nascent Stage

Stressing that the investigation into the incident was still at a nascent stage, Zuckerberg said the social media giant does not know if any of the accounts were misused or who was behind the cyber attacks. “So far, our initial investigation has not shown that these tokens were used to access any private messages or posts or to post anything to these accounts.”