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The Recent Facebook Hack

Bambino — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:39:06 GMT

A mere 30 million were affected. If you want to know if you were one of them, take a look here:

https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice?ref=sec

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Cleoriff — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:20:37 GMT

According to that, I wasn't hacked. However, who would believe them?

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

sheepdog — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:31:59 GMT

They lied about the "informing why we logged you out". I was and haven't seen a thing pop up. Then again, wny am I suprised at the lack of honest info from Facebook.

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Cleoriff — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:38:43 GMT

'Access Tokens?' Trying to blind us (or me) with clever 'technical' terms

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

jonsie — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:45:58 GMT

My account wasn't affected.....of course it wasn't!

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:52:15 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
According to that, I wasn't hacked. However, who would believe them?

Said the same for me but then what are access tokens? Never heard that term before

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:53:30 GMT

Access tokens are given to a user(you) for an app(Facebook) to gain access(authenticate) to a platform (Facebook,com)

a user's access token may become invalid at any time. If this happens, prompt the user to re- authorize the application

And that’s why they signed you out, to make sure only people with the correct credentials could sign back in!

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Glory1 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:30:22 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Access tokens are given to a user(you) for an app(Facebook) to gain access(authenticate) to a platform (Facebook,com)

a user's access token may become invalid at any time. If this happens, prompt the user to re- authorize the application

And that’s why they signed you out, to make sure only people with the correct credentials could sign back in!

Thanks for clearing that one up @Anonymous because it was new to me too. As@Cleoriff would say, 'every day's a school day' on the forum. You learn loads of useful information.

I was signed out of FB on a number of my games that I had logged into FB to save my progress (and coins if at all possible) on as well.

Was my account hacked, could well have been, who knows. Only time will tell. And no matter how careful and/or clever we are in protecting our data, there's always someone out there, just that bit more clever, who will attempt to steal it. However, that doesn't mean we make it easy for the bu66ers

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Cleoriff — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:41:31 GMT

It probably doesn't work if you don't sign out then. Which I never do. I just close down FB.

When I next access it, I get straight on.

Only time I have to sign in to any site is if I clear cache and cookies.

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Glory1 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 23:07:19 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
It probably doesn't work if you don't sign out then. Which I never do. I just close down FB.
When I next access it, I get straight on.
Only time I have to sign in to any site is if I clear cache and cookies.

It isn't a great idea to remain permanently logged in anywhere @Cleoriff, though I admit it does make life a he££ of a lot easier

I never used to sign out either, until a friend far more computer savvy than me suggested I do otherwise sharpish. I sign in everywhere now.

And I presume your Note 9, like my S8+, allows you to retain logins and passwords in your phone's memory so you don't have to tap it all out every time you DO login!?

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Cleoriff — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 23:52:39 GMT

@Glory1 I'm talking about my laptop which I use daily. It's also only ever used by me. It's not communal.

I do everything online and never sign out of anything (although my laptop remembers passwords etc)

Therefore, signing out of sites doesn't make it any more secure. Particularly if it is set to remember passwords. (that info was given to me by someone far more computer savvy than myself)

Re: The Recent Facebook Hack

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:39:02 GMT

If you are accessing facebook via a browser, the access token will likely be in the form of a cookie.

You can be sure it's gone by clearing your browser's cookies.

I don't know about the apps, it isn't installed on my phone and I'm not a member and as much as I want to help you good people, I'm not signing up to test.