Facebook Security Breach Gave Hackers Control to 50 Million Accounts

Facebook Security Breach Gave Hackers Control to50 Million Accounts The social media giant made a blog postabout the flaw discovered byits engineering team. Hackers found a weakness in the company’s code within its “View As” feature. “View As” lets users see whattheir profile looks to other userson Facebook. This gave hackers access to tokens totap into these 50 million accounts. These digital keys let people stay logged into the platform withoutre-entering a password. The company suspended the feature while it reviews their security andnotifies law enforcement. Shares of Facebook droppednearly 3% following the news.