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Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

Facebook discovered that hackers had exploited a vulnerability and accessed unspecified data.  Facebook found no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised.  Malware was installed on a number of employee laptops after a small number of them visited a mobile developer website that turned out to be unsafe. Microsoft, Twitter, and Apple were affected by the same issue around the same time.

Root cause

Hacking

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