Two weeks ago Facebook announced they had discovered a massive security breach affecting over 50 million accounts. Now Australian charity and cyber support service IDCARE has released information on how to secure your account if it was breached.
In a statement released on September 28th, Facebook explained the breach was linked to the “View As” feature on the site which allows users to see their profile as it appears to other users; “attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As” a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts.”
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A release from IDCARE has outlined the necessary steps for users to take to ensure their accounts remain protected. Check out the step by step guide below.
IDCARE Advice to Impacted Users on What to Do
• Run anti-virus on all of your Internet-enabled devices and ensure you have
updated your applications and operating systems.
• Log out of Facebook, change your password and consider initiating second-
factor authentication.
• Log out of all other connected applications and services that rely on your
Facebook username and password and log in using your new password.
• Be very careful responding to emails, social media communications, and text
messaging that ask you to open links or attachments.
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• Look for any unusual activity relating to your Facebook and relevant third
party applications, such as log in and usage histories, posts or changes to
rules, user access or related settings that do not accord to your own usage.
• Limit the amount of personal information you store and share on Facebook
and related social media.
• Remove all personal information, including identity credential information,
sent and received on your email accounts.
• Keep checking Facebook for any further updates about this breach.
