Facebook reveals new details about information hackers stole | Advertising

Facebook‘s major hack, announced two weeks ago, affected 30 million people, not 50 million as originally feared.

But for about half of those whose accounts were broken intoabout 14 million peoplethe hackers accessed intimate information, such as the last 10 places that person checked into, their current city and their 15 most-recent searches, the company said Friday. For 15 million, the cyberthieves only accessed name and contact information. The attackers didn’t take any information from about 1 million people whose accounts were vulnerable.

A smaller slice of people was more heavily affected. About 400,000 people served as the hackers’ entry point to the 30 million others on Facebook. For those 400,000, the attackers could see what the users see as they look at their own profiles. That included posts on their Facebook timelines, and names of recent Facebook Messenger conversations.

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