LOL! ... I thought it was me spamming all my followers with our new special feature Mod-my-Box™ but nope ... it wasn't me. Probably Russians, Chinese or the North Koreans. But rest assured, no personal data was compromised ... says Facebook.

"Facebook has revealed it was the target of a "sophisticated attack" by hackers last month, but found no evidence any user data had been compromised. The US-based social network said that the attack occurred when employees visited a mobile developer website "that was compromised".

Facebook said in a blog post that it was not the only company to have been attacked in this way. More than one billion people use Facebook worldwide.

"Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," the California-based company said. "The attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised."

Malware was downloaded on to its employees' laptops, the firm said, adding: "As soon as we discovered the presence of the malware, we remediated all infected machines, informed law enforcement, and began a significant investigation that continues to this day." "We have no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised in this attack," Facebook said in its blog post."

Source: BBC

Newer

Older