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Saturday
Oct132018

Here’s how you can check if your Facebook data was accessed in recently discovered hack

A recently discovered Facebook hack has affected millions of its users but the social network hasn’t shared what type of information was accessed—until today. The company has detailed what type of information was accessed during that wide-scale hack. And these include users’ names, email addresses, phone number, and other personal details like locations, religion, etc. The data on 29 million people were viewed and Facebook shared how you can see if your data was seen. You can check this page on Facebook’s Help Center to see if your account was affected. If it was, you’ll see the message above and it’ll show what information of yours was accessed.

According to The Verge, of the 29 million users, 15 million had their name, phone number, and email address exposed (depending on what contact information is available on their profile). The other 14 million had additional profile info viewed, including gender, location, device info, locations tagged in, Pages liked, and religion. And another million had access tokens stolen but never used. As far as Facebook knows, the hackers haven’t posted anything on users’ profiles.

You don’t need to do anything if your data has been viewed, though. According to Facebook, passwords haven’t been stolen and the company has already reset the access tokens that let them log in when the breach was found. According to Facebook’s VP of Product Management Guy Rosen, the company doesn’t see any tampering of accessed data. But they are currently still investigating alongside the FBI.

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