Facebook: September attack affected 30 million, cooperating with FBI

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Facebook revealed Friday that last month’s security breach that affected almost 30 million accounts was indeed an attack and that the FBI is helping investigate.

The social media giant determined on Sept. 25 that there was an attack and was able to close the vulnerability within two days.

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