NEW YORK — For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next? The attack then moved along from one user’s Facebook friend to another. One of the bugs was more than a year old and affected how the “View As” feature interacted with Facebook’s video uploading feature for posting “happy birthday” messages, said Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice-president of product management. “We haven’t yet been able to determine if there was specific targeting” of particular accounts, Rosen said in a call with reporters. “Fifty million random Facebook accounts are not interesting for any intelligence agency.”——O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

Source: National Post September 29, 2018 05:37 UTC