Facebook security vulnerability could have exposed 50 million accounts
A bug in Facebook’s ‘View As’ feature led to the breach

If Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal wasn’t enough to get your attention, the company has some more bad news for its users today.

As reported by the New York Times, Facebook today announced that a recent cyberattack may have compromised the information of around 50 million users. While not quite on the scale of the Equifax breach in 2017, 50 million users is still no small number.

Naturally, though, that number could change. Facebook’s investigation into the matter is not yet complete, so it’s tough to say how accurate it will be in the end – more compromised accounts could be found, or the issue could prove to be less severe than it seems.

Either way, as a precautionary measure, Facebook has forced “more than” 90 million users to log out of their accounts.