The Facebook breach only affected 30 million users. Even 29 million Facebook accounts were compromised while no data was stolen from the remaining one million accounts.
Facebook decided to updates every users to check from the Facebook Help center if their data was stolen or not. Users can check Facebook’s Help Center to check if their information was accessed, also Facebook sent alerts to those that have their account stolen and what they can do to recover it. It was clarified that information accessed was necessarily not erased.
How to find out if your data was accessed
Visit the Facebook Help Center link while logged in: https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice?ref=sec > Scroll down to the section “Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?”Hence, you’ll find a Yes or No answer if you are among the one of the 30 million users impacted in the breach. Even you are impacted; you will also receive a warning alert at the top of your News Feed.
If Yes, you’ll be in one of these three categories:
A. You’re in the 15 million users whose name plus email and/or phone number was accessed.
B. You’re in the 14 million users who had that data plus account bio data accessed including “username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.”
C. You’re in the 1 million users whose access token was stolen but your account was never actually accessed with it. Good for you.
Secure your data. What to do it you were hacked
Since, no evidence that data were erased or accessed. You do not have to change your Facebook password, credit card info or close down your account.You should always take note of what you do online or be very sure of any link you click on. How to protect your data from hackers: Here are some best possible ways to keep your data safe online.
If you’re among the 14 million users who had their data accessed including other personal info. Just make sure you change every info and make sure you block any vital data like credit card info.
