Facebook said on Friday it had confirmed that the attackers in the mass security breach it announced late in September accessed the accounts of about 30-million people and stole name and contact details of 29-million members. Facebook said in late September that hackers stole digital login codes, allowing them to take over nearly 50-million user accounts in its worst security breach yet, but did not confirm if information had actually been stolen. The company said that for 15-million people, attackers accessed name and contact details, including phone number, e-mail, or both, depending on what the individuals had on their profiles. For 14-million more people, the attackers also accessed other details, including username, gender, relationship status, locale/language, religion, hometown, current city, birth date, devices used to access Facebook, education, work and the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in. "We’re co-operating with the FBI, which is actively investigating...
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