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That concerned just dont be on any social media, period, like complete i will go off the grid. >> you dont use it anymore, you go to a different venue and youre looking for something thats safe. nothing is really safe. >> facebook mark zuckerberg spoke about the hack on a conference call yesterday saying in part, we are continuing to improve our defenses and i think that this also underscores that there were constant attacks from people who are trying to take over accounts or steal information f...

Why you should be concerned. >> facebook says hackers got access to the system by exploiting the view ads feature that you click on to see how your profile looks to the general public and once the hackers got in it allowed them to steal access tokens, digital keys the keep you logged in so you dont have to reenter your password every time you use facebook. the aeschylus tokens then took over peoples accounts, 50 million of them. the company says passwords and credit card information was not stol...

Yesterday saying we are continuing to improve our defenses and i think this underscores that there are constant attacks from people who are trying to take over accounts. they steal still information for people in our community. concerns regarding russian influence on users. the companys says theyre taking the situation very seriously but their investigation is still very early on in the past for an additional 40 million users of meaning 90 billion people well now had to log back in if they want ...

>> so what do people do? can they protect themselves at this point? >> well, right now, facebook says do nothing. they say that this hack -- that the hackers didnt have access to your passwords, but managed to get into accounts threw a different mechanism. they said theres no need to change your password. but that if you were log the out of facebook yesterday or any time over the past 36 hours or so, you are probably among the 1 million people who are in some way impacted by this. 50 million peo...

>> we are still in the early phase of investigating this. we do not yet know if any private information was accessed that way. >> reporter: facebook now working with the fbi to determine the source of the attack today and automatically logging out 90 million users from their accounts, alerting those impacted with this message at the top of the newsfeed. facebook says passwords and credit cards were not compromised in this breach. its still a good idea to update that password tonight, and most im...

By exploiting the view as feature. thats what you click on when you want to see how your profile looks to the general public. then it allowed them to steal facebook access tokens. those are digital keys that keep you logged in so you dont have to reenter your password. they were used to take over peoples accounts. 50 million of them. things like names, genders, hometowns were taken. the hack gave the attackers full control of your accounts, meaning they could send messages, post pictures and not...

View as, it allowed them to steal facebook access tokens. those are digital keys that keep you logged in so you dont re-enter your password every time you use facebook. the access tokens were then used to take over peoples accounts. 50 million of them as you said. the company says passwords and credit card information was not stolen. but things like names and gender, hometowns were taken. here is the big headline. the hack gave attackers full control of the accounts. meaning if they took over yo...

Nationwide? >> to roll it out at a state and federal election level has to be tested and proven. this technology came under fire at a recent hacker convention in las vegas which is the annual hacking convention and they laughed at these application technologies because people throw buzzwords like block chain or crypto currency and securid is built on a secure foundation, not tested in this kind of application and one of the other issues was the voting application uses other types of identificati...

Information. this fake e-mail from russian intelligence officers, prosecutors say, tricked john podesta into clicking on their fake link and entering his password. analysts say there would be a treasure-trove of information. >> one thing you could do is come up with a social network, their friends, contacts, certainly documents that you shouldnt have on your personal e-mail account. we know some people have done this in the past. >> how would some of americas enemies use that information? >> the...

Email from prugsz intellgens afrss tricked them on to entering his password. thereside the be a drev drove. >> one thing you can do easily is some up with their social net wrrkwork. documents you shouldabout have in your personal email accounts. >> one thing they could do is find things that can be used for blackmail. just last muonth microsoft announced it thwarted part of a russian military intelligence operation targeting some ink tacks. >> so far he has with withdrawn the twroous from the ob...