In an interesting update around Facebook users getting hacked, the social networking giant said spammers could be prime suspects behind the mass breach of its user accounts.<\/p>\n
Sources of the new update were linked to the company\u2019s internal investigation team.<\/p>\n
The team believes that it could be spammers, who indulged in this act of hacking nearly 30 million FB user accounts for huge earnings through illicit advertising practice.<\/p>\n
Upon the attack, FB team had first said that they will not be able identify the hackers.<\/p>\n
However, in their preliminary findings post the attack, the #FBSecurityTeam said that they have spotted strangers downloading digital access tokens in bulk quantities on the social network.<\/p>\n
Now, FB internal researchers suspect Facebook and Instagram spammers masqueraded as digital marketers as the key suspects behind the breach, which #FB terms as the biggest one in its history.<\/p>\n
FB had also announced that it is closely working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to catch the culprits.<\/p>\n
Security experts feel that the digital tokens that hackers have stolen allows them to access any part of a user\u2019s FB account and would be much more beneficial for the state-sponsored unlawful groups.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the internal probing team also feels that the primary intention could be just financial and not anything ideological.<\/p>\n
While a total of 30 million users were hacked, 14 million suffered breach of contact details including phone numbers & email addresses, gender, search data and check-in data and 15 million users saw only names and contacts hacked.<\/p>\n
And, the other 1 million did not suffer breach of personal information.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re actively investigating this with us and they\u2019ve asked us not to discuss who may be behind this attack or what their intentions could be,\u201d said Guy Rosen<\/span>, a Facebook Vice President, who takes care of the company\u2019s safety & security efforts, in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an interesting update around Facebook users getting hacked, the social networking giant said spammers could…<\/span><\/p>\n