Facebook Warned Staff Of 2018 Hack Risk But Not Users Says Court Filing
A court filing says that Facebook warned staff of the risk that led to a huge security breach that last year allowed hackers to access almost 29 million accounts — but failed to warn its users… The risk was in the use of single sign-on, a way to let you sign into third-party apps and websites using your Facebook credentials. While this doesn’t give the third party service access to your login details, it does generate an access token that hackers were able to misuse to view private content in accounts....