EPISODE · Oct 1, 2018 · 7 MIN
The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
On Friday, Facebook revealed that it had suffered a security breach that impacted at least 50 million of its users, and possibly as many as 90 million. What it failed to mention initially, but revealed in a followup call Friday afternoon, is that the flaw affects more than just Facebook. If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook. That's a lot of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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On Friday, Facebook revealed that it had suffered a security breach that impacted at least 50 million of its users, and possibly as many as 90 million. What it failed to mention initially, but revealed in a followup call Friday afternoon, is that the flaw affects more than just Facebook. If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook. That's a lot of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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