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Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Recent Data Breach

Facebook has had a lot of issues in the past couple of months in relation to data and privacy. Many people are very skeptical over the future of Facebook because it has had a lot of problems and people are now wondering if they will ever be able to keep their data safe on the site. No one should have to worry about these kind of things when using social media. This is a duty of Facebook.

Key Takeaways:

  • Recently, Facebook announced that there had been a significant data breach where approximately 50 million accounts were hacked.
  • According to Facebook V.P. Guy Rosen, there was an unusually high amount of activity that led to further investigation and eventually discovery of the compromise by the end of the month.
  • Facebook is addressing the problem by completing a complete reset of the users’ access tokens and temporarily getting rid of the “View As” feature.

“Here’s what happened — as well as what our data shows about user sentiment in light of the latest breach, and what could be behind that reaction.”

Read more: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/facebook-account-hack

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