Fifty million user accounts affected by new Facebook security breach

Facebook has revealed it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts.

The company says in a blog post hackers exploited its "View As" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to someone else.

Facebook says it has taken steps to fix the security problem and alerted law enforcement.

To deal with the issue, Facebook reset some logins, so 90 million people have been logged out and will have to log in again.

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That includes anyone who has been subject to a "View As" lookup in the past year.

Facebook says it doesn't know who's behind the attacks or where they're based.

The hack is the latest security headache for Facebook, which has been dealing with political disinformation campaigns from Russia and elsewhere since 2016.