{"id":88852,"date":"2018-10-16T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-22T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:24:41","slug":"protect-yourself-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/protect-yourself-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Yourself from Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Protect<\/a>Just in case you have been sleeping under a rock the past couple of weeks, social media giant Facebook<\/a><\/strong> (FB<\/a>) was hacked again<\/strong>. In a presser<\/a> on 10\/12\/2018, the social networker admitted that nearly 30 million Facebook users<\/strong><\/a> were hacked. This is on top of the 50 million user accounts<\/strong><\/a> that Mark Zuckerberg’s company allowed Cambridge Analytics to steal.<\/p>\n

\"Facebook<\/a>During the presser, Facebook<\/a> did not apologize<\/strong> for exposing its users\u2019 information but noted that it was cooperating with the FBI<\/a>, the US Federal Trade Commission<\/a>, the Irish Data Protection Commission<\/a>, and other authorities on the data breach.<\/p>\n

The attack involved the capture of Facebook \u201caccess tokens<\/strong>,\u201d or digital keys that allow websites to recognize who someone is and keep them logged in. Using accounts they already controlled, the attackers used an \u201cautomated technique<\/strong>\u201d to exploit Facebook\u2019s \u201cView As<\/strong>\u201d functionality and steal access tokens for some 400,000 people. Hackers then used friend lists<\/strong> from those 400,000 accounts to obtain access tokens for another 30 million people<\/strong> (Here’s how to find out if you were hacked<\/a>). Facebook tracked this hack to a change it made to its video uploading feature<\/a> over a year ago in July 2017, and how that change affected View As.<\/p>\n

Facebook confirmed on Friday that the hack compromised the personal and contact information<\/a><\/strong> of 30 million users. The compromised personal data includes:<\/p>\n