{"id":15768,"date":"2018-10-14T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T09:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/facebook-mass-hack-last-month-was-so-totally-overblown-only-30-million-people-affected\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T09:50:48","slug":"facebook-mass-hack-last-month-was-so-totally-overblown-only-30-million-people-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/facebook-mass-hack-last-month-was-so-totally-overblown-only-30-million-people-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook mass hack last month was so totally overblown \u2013 <i>only<\/i> 30 million people affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>Last month&#8217;s deliberate theft of private account records from the internet giant, initially believed to affect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/09\/28\/facebook_accounts_hacked_bug\/\">50 million or maybe 90 million accounts<\/a>, turns out to be nowhere near that bad. Cough.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the data-harvesting biz <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/10\/update-on-security-issue\/\">said<\/a> a mere 30 million people were robbed of their authentication tokens \u2013 which could and were used to log into their Facebook accounts. That&#8217;s only 1.34 per cent of Facebook&#8217;s total active users \u2013 which says more about the out-of-control size of the antisocial network than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now know that fewer people were impacted than originally thought,&#8221; said Guy Rosen, VP of product management, during a conference call for the media on Friday morning, Pacific Time.<\/p>\n<p>Initial worries that the token pilfering might have led to the compromise of third-party apps implementing Facebook Login turn out to be completely unfounded. Rosen said Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, payments, third-party apps, advertising and developer accounts were not affected. Bullet dodged.<\/p>\n<p>For one million of the token deprived, the attackers took no information. For 15 million, they obtained names, phone numbers, and email addresses, if present in their profiles. For the remaining 14 million, they accessed not only profile data fields, but quite a bit more:<\/p>\n<p>Basically everything you need to, say, answer someone&#8217;s security questions to gain control of their account on a website.<\/p>\n<p>The social network previously confirmed to <em>The Register<\/em> that the accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg were among those affected.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers, Rosen said, would not have been able to access any message contents, unless the victim happened to be a Facebook Page admin whose Page had received a message from a Facebook user.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>The anatomy of a hack<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As recounted by Rosen, the attackers took advantage of a vulnerability in Facebook&#8217;s code that existed between July 2017 and September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On September 25, Facebook determined that a spike in activity, identified previously as unusual, represented an attack. The anomalous traffic began on September 14.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/09\/28\/shutterstock_zuckerberg_oh_no.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \"\/><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Miscreants harvested tens of millions of profiles via 'View as...' feature, dodgy API\">Facebook: Up to 90 million addicts&#8217; accounts slurped by hackers, no thanks to crappy code<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/09\/28\/facebook_accounts_hacked_bug\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Asked whether Facebook could provide any further insight into the identity, location, or intentions of the attacker(s), Rosen said Facebook has been working with the FBI to investigate the incident and the agency asked the company to refrain from discussing who might be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The synergy between three separate software bugs allowed the miscreants to misuse Facebook&#8217;s View As feature \u2013 which lets users to see their accounts as someone else would \u2013 to steal the access tokens associated with the viewed account. Such tokens are what allow users to interact with Facebook without logging in ever time they send or receive data from the site.<\/p>\n<p>With an initial set of accounts under their control, the attackers, said Rosen, exploited the vulnerable code to run a script that collected access tokens from their friends and the friends of their friends, representing a group of about 400,000 people. They then used the friend lists of those 400,000 seed accounts to steal access tokens from 30 million accounts.<\/p>\n<p>On September 27, Rosen said Facebook closed the vulnerabilities, secured affected accounts, and reset access tokens for those accounts. He said Facebook is looking into the possibility of smaller scale attacks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>Expect a call<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Facebook has posted <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/securitynotice?ref=sec\">a summary of the incident<\/a> in its Help Center and plans to send customized messages to the 30 million people affected \u2013 that&#8217;s the sort of thing you can do when you have access to people&#8217;s data \u2013 explaining what information was nabbed and steps that can be taken to prevent further damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People&#8217;s privacy and security is incredibly important and we&#8217;re sorry this happened,&#8221; said Rosen.<\/p>\n<p>That sorrow has limits. <em>The Register<\/em> asked Facebook whether it intends to pay for identity theft monitoring for the 30 million people affected, a common act of contrition following data thefts.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook spokesperson said, &#8220;Not at this time; the resources we are pointing people toward are based on the actual types of data accessed \u2013 including the steps they can take to help protect themselves from suspicious emails, text messages, or calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Facebook may end up opening the corporate coffers to make things right. The company offered no details about how many of those affected reside in the EU where the data protection regime (GDPR) allows for penalties that bring tears to the eyes of accountants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have to see what Facebook discloses about potential liability if any exists,&#8221; said Pravin Kothari, CEO of CipherCloud, in an email to <em>The Register<\/em>. &#8220;The calculations of the potential fines under GDPR are a bit mind-boggling with any possible impact to millions of users.&#8221; \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1787\/-6625\/following-bottomlines-journey-to-the-hybrid-cloud?td=wptl1787\">Following Bottomline\u2019s journey to the Hybrid Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/10\/12\/hack_of_facebook\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news: 20m feared pwned are safe. Bad news: That&#8217;s still 30m profiles snooped&#8230; Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the social network.\u2026  READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Facebook mass hack last month was so totally overblown \u2013 only 30 million people affected 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security &amp; Cyber Threats 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