About 90 millio­n users will have to log back into Facebo­ok or any of their apps that use Facebo­ok loginFacebook Inc has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts which could have allowed attackers to take over the accounts, the social networking company said on Friday. Facebook says 87 million may be affected by data breachAttackers stole Facebook access tokens through its “view as” feature, which they could then use to take over people’s accounts. Facebook has reset the access tokens of the 50 million affected accounts, it said. As a precaution, the company has reset access tokens for another 40 million accounts that have looked up through the “view as” option in the last year. About 90 million people will have to log back into Facebook or any of their apps that use a Facebook login, the company said.

Source: The Express Tribune September 28, 2018 17:48 UTC