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MANILA, Philippines – Of the 29 million accounts affected worldwide by the breach that Facebook suffered in late September, 755,973 were based in the Philippines, Facebook told the National Privacy Commission (NPC).
Originally, You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. were said to have been affected, but Facebook said after its investigation that the number affected was smaller, at 29 million. The häçkers were able to gain access by exploiting several vulnerabilities, anchored by a vulnerability in the "View As" feature, which allowed them to take users' access tokens.
The company reported the details of the breach to the NPC on October 13, with the NPC releasing a report on Thursday, October 18. (READ: What to do after the massive Facebook häçk)
The affected users were divided into 3 groups based on the personal information the perpetrators may have accessed.
The first group involves around 387,322 users. This group may have had their basic profile information compromised, including their registered full name, email address, and phone number if one was associated with the account.
The second group affects around 361,227 accounts. Along with basic profile information, the attackers may have also obtained the nickname, gender, language chosen by user, relationship status, religion, hometown, location, birthday, devices used with Facebook, educational background, work, website listed on profile, verified status information, list of recent location check-ins, recent search queries, and the top 500 accounts that the user follows.
The third group involves 7,424 users, whose posts, friends list, and groups they belong to may have also been exposed in addition to the information seen in the other two groups. häçkers may have also seen the names of who they have been talking to recently on Messenger.
