Facebook hacked, social media company says
A man uses an iPad with a Facebook app
(Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)
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Tim Reid
Reuters
12:32 p.m. CST, February 16, 2013
(Reuters) - Facebook said on Friday that it been the target of a series
of attacks by an unidentified hacker group, but it had found no evidence
that user data was compromised.
"Last month,
Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a
sophisticated attack," the company said in a blog post. "The attack
occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website
that was compromised."
The social network, which says
it has more than one billion active users worldwide, added: "Facebook
was not alone in this attack. It is clear that others were attacked and
infiltrated recently as well."
Facebook's
announcement follows recent cyber attacks on other prominent websites.
Twitter, the microblogging social network, said this month that it had
been hacked, and that approximately 250,000 user accounts were
potentially compromised, with attackers gaining access to information
including user names and email addresses.
Newspaper
websites including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The
Wall Street Journal have also been infiltrated, according to the news
organizations. Those attacks were attributed by the news organizations
to Chinese hackers targeting their coverage of China.
(Reporting By Tim Reid; Editing by Gary Hill)
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