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Nearly 50 Million Facebook Users Compromised in Breach

Nearly 50 million Facebook accounts were compromised by an attack that gave hackers the ability to take over users’ accounts.

The breach was discovered by Facebook engineers Sept. 25, the company said, and patched two days later. Users whose accounts were affected were notified by Facebook. Those users were logged out of their accounts and required to log back in.