Facebook: 50 million accounts could have been hacked

A million hacked Facebook accounts isn’t cool. You know what’s even less cool? Fifty million hacked Facebook accounts.

A Friday morning press release from our connect-people-at-any-cost friends in Menlo Park detailed a potentially horrifying situation for the billions of people who use the social media service: Their accounts might have been hacked. Well, at least 50 million of them might have been. 

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The so-called "security update" is light on specifics, but what it does include is extremely troubling. 

That's right, almost 50 million accounts were vulnerable to this attack. As for how many were actually exploited? Well, Facebook isn't sure.  Read more...

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