Facebook unaware of origin of HACK affecting 50m profiles Hackers were able to exploit a flaw in Facebook’s code to take control of accounts as if they had logged into the account with a password.

Continuing with its open source endeavors, Facebook has open-sourced Hack Codegen, a library for automatically generating Hack code. Hack is Facebook’s spinoff of the PHP language, working with ...

Facebook hacked – here's how the attack happened, what info was stolen, what to do next, security breach info about your passwords and credit cards, and what Mark Zuckerberg has to say.

Security experts investigating cybercriminals in Netherlands have discovered two million account details stolen from popular sites including Facebook, pictured, Twitter, Google, and more.

Another long-term design goal — more implied by the language’s construction than explicitly stated by Facebook — is making Hack safer with fewer inherent vulnerabilities than PHP.

The Facebook hack is even worse than was at first clear, the company has admitted. The site had already admitted that a hole in its code would allow people to gain access to any account, in a ...

Hacked Facebook accounts are being sold on the dark web, showing the value of such accounts after the social network revealed 50 million of its users had been compromised in a major hack.