Facebook says there's no evidence ‘so far’ that hackers accessed third-party apps

Less than a week after revealing that 50 million Facebook users may have had their accounts compromised by hackers, the company is trying to allay concerns that the massive hack could get even worse. 

The worry — which has been raised by a number of security professionals in recent days — is that hackers who were able to get into users' Facebook accounts would also have been able to get into any account that uses Facebook Login.

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Think about that for a second: Thousands of apps use Facebook Login, including many containing sensitive personal and financial information, like Tinder, Uber, Venmo, and, yes, Instagram. If hackers were indeed able to access those accounts, it would make an already massive hack exponentially worse. Read more...

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