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Independent investigative journalist. Writes about cybercrime. Author of 'Spam Nation', a NYT bestseller. Wrote for The Washington Post '95-'09

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    briankrebs‏Verified account @briankrebs Sep 28

    Facebook just announced it fixed a flaw that exposed the access tokens for 50 million user accounts that could have let thieves gain control over accountshttps://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ …

    10:42 AM - 28 Sep 2018
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      2. ThugCrowd‏ @thugcrowd Sep 28
        Replying to @briankrebs

        Statement from the person who found, threatened to use, and eventually reported the bug https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188 …

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. briankrebs‏Verified account @briankrebs Sep 28
        Replying to @thugcrowd

        Has anyone validated this? The Google translation of that post is pretty awful. Thanks.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. ThugCrowd‏ @thugcrowd Sep 28
        Replying to @briankrebs

        Chi Yuan Chang is known in bug bounty circles, and his facebook is linked directly from @LINEjp_official website for Security Contributorshttps://bugbounty.linecorp.com/en/halloffame/2016/ …

        0 replies 5 retweets 12 likes
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      2. Andy‏ @rot169 Sep 28
        Replying to @briankrebs

        Does a compromise of one of these access tokens also grant access to any 3rd party accounts using "Login with Facebook"? (I *really* hope not...!)

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. briankrebs‏Verified account @briankrebs Sep 28
        Replying to @rot169

        it's a key question. checking.

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      1. Adam Dzuricky‏ @thebatman012 Sep 28
        Replying to @briankrebs

        Could those tokens then be used to log into other service providers that use Facebook as an identity provider?

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      1. wo{2}ds‏ @oodsway Sep 28
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        pic.twitter.com/dHD3OOstel

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      2. Anshu Śharma‏ @anshublog Sep 28
        Replying to @briankrebs

        Why do their session tokens last so long?

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      3. INKASEC‏ @inkasec Sep 28
        Replying to @anshublog

        to keep users online as long as possible - nothing to do with security, of course

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Alex Varelas‏ @varelas_alex Sep 29
        Replying to @briankrebs @koidis

        I cannot imagine what would have happened if they didn't take things "incredibly seriously"...

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      1. Neil Williams‏ @neildotwilliams Sep 28
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        Ooh-auth anybody 🙃

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      1. nicdevss‏ @nicdevss Sep 28
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        *stares at camera* ... Nice.

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      1. Steve Freeman‏ @XyzzyFrobozz Sep 28
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        I'm glad they're taking this "incredibly seriously". ;)

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      1. ℨ𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔈𝔡𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔰‏ @thezedwards Sep 28
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        Does anyone know if this was related to their app webhooks?

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      1. The Steve‏ @stedun Sep 28
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        Or, Facebook customer didn’t pay.

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      1. Ryan‏ @ryanb93 Sep 28
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        pic.twitter.com/03SyhTA1rQ

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      1. PreVeil‏ @PreVeil Sep 28
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        Seems that the best part of Facebook is getting *hacked*.

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      1. Aaron Bateman‏ @schizrade Sep 28
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        Yeah, im deleting that account now.

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