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Facebook hack: Why you must avoid logging into sites using a single account

If you found yourself logged out of your Facebook account last week, it's likely you were affected by the hack

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Mike Johnstone | The Conversation
Facebook announced on Friday that its engineering team had discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. Due to a flaw in Facebook’s code, hackers were able to take over an account and use it in the same way you would if you had logged into the account with a password.

The company says it has now fixed the problem in its code and reset access tokens for those accounts – along with 40 million other accounts that were vulnerable to the flaw. If you found yourself logged out of your Facebook account last week, it’s likely you were affected.

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