Article 4BW51 More than 110,000 Australians caught up in September's Facebook cyber-attack

More than 110,000 Australians caught up in September's Facebook cyber-attack

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Christopher Knaus
from Technology | The Guardian on (#4BW51)

Hackers were able to access users' movements, hometown, search history, email and phone number

The detailed personal information of more than 60,000 Australians was exposed in a massive cyber-attack on Facebook last year, giving hackers the ability to access their movements, hometown, search history, email and phone number.

Internal documents reveal the attack on Facebook in September last year affected an estimated 111,813 Australians, among roughly 29 million worldwide.

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