Hackers attack Facebook, 50 million accounts are affected: What should be done at this time?

Facebook has just suffered a large-scale attack, which can be considered the most serious ever in the development history of this social network. What should users do to preserve Facebook and their personal information?

Information from the New York Times, Facebook discovered a large-scale attack aimed at the company's computer system earlier this week. Accordingly, the attacker exploited a feature in the Facebook code that allowed the user account to be taken. More than 50 million user accounts have been hacked by hackers due to taking advantage of security holes.

Facebook was attacked, more than 50 million accounts were stolen.

This is the most serious hack ever in Facebook's development history. Currently, Facebook claims to have patched this and at the same time warned law enforcement agencies.

For this reason, yesterday (Saturday - Vietnam time), more than 90 million Facebook accounts were forced to log out from the account, in order to preserve the account could be affected. .

For the past few days, Facebook has not yet been able to localize attackers and attack areas. All are only in the internal investigation phase.

In front of this fact, CMC Infosec's security expert said that with 50 million directly affected accounts and a total of 90 million Facebook accounts have been logged out recently, all users in Vietnam should immediately change password Note, the new password must also be strong enough with at least 8 characters including special characters, capital letters, numbers.

Along with that, users should use multi-layer authentication . The use of Facebook accounts to login Instagram and applications on the phone makes these applications no longer safe. If users use accounts that make purchases through applications, users need to replace the passwords of these card accounts.