5 million Facebook users data hacked in September

5 million Facebook users data hacked in September

Social media company on Friday counted 5 million Facebook users' data hacking. Facebook said that data of about 50 million users have been hacked due to a lack of security features. After which the American MP Mark Warner has demanded the investigation of the whole matter. Warner demanded that action should be taken against Facebook for the privacy and security of social media users.

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What did Warner say?

1. Mark Warner, co-chairman of the Senate Cyber Security Caucus, issued a statement saying that according to the report, an agreement was reached with the account of at least 50 million Facebook users, which should be scrutinized at the earliest.
2. He also said that whatever comes out after the investigation should be made public so that we can understand what happened.
3. Warner said that 'companies like Facebook are capable of depositing personal data of Americans without security measures.'

Do not know whether an account was misuse: Facebook

1. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that "our engineers have cured shortcomings of coding, but we do not know whether an account has been misused or not."
2. Gav Rosen, Vice President, Product Management, Facebook, said in a blog post that "Our investigation has just begun, but it is clear that hackers have taken advantage of the weakness of the Facebook code and took data from the user."

How to account for hacked users?

1. Facebook said that the hackers stole the 'access token' and hacked the accounts of the users. Access tokens are in a way digital-enabled, with the help of which the user is always logged in to a device. He does not have to give a username and password repeatedly.
2. Facebook said that after knowing about this, 9 crores users will reset their account, due to which these users will have to log in again. At the moment, access tokens of 5 million users have been reset.