In a post on the social network's news site, Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen said the breach had been discovered on Tuesday. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire50 million Facebook users affected by security breachFacebook users have been warned to be vigilant by cyber security watchdogs after it emerged the tech giant had suffered a security breach affecting 50 million users. In a post on the social network's news site, Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen said the breach had been discovered on Tuesday. "This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people's accounts. The firm later said the issue had arisen due to the combination of three distinct bugs which meant the hackers were able extract the access tokens of other users.

Source: Evening echo September 29, 2018 10:07 UTC