Sunday, February 17, 2013

Facebook hit with "sophisticated" hack

Facebook was hit with a "sophisticated" hacking attack in January that compromised the systems of a "handful" of engineers in an attempt to break into the site's servers. The attack happened after Facebook employees visited the website for a mobile developer, which hackers had previously loaded with malware.

The hackers took advantage of a previously unknown Java vulnerability.



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