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Massive Facebook Breach Affects 90 Million Accounts

ID: 9c4f085b-0f80-54d4-ab97-38557711273e

STIX ID: report--9c4f085b-0f80-54d4-ab97-38557711273e

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2018-09-28

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

Author: Paul Roberts

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Facebook discovered and disclosed a major security breach that exploited the "View As" feature (triggered by a July 2017 video-upload change) enabling attackers to capture access tokens and hijack user sessions; the company forced resets for more than 50 million accounts and planned resets for another 40 million while disabling the feature and investigating with law enforcement.

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