Facebook hacked, says no user data compromised

Facebook says it has found no evidence that any user information was compromised in a hack last month.

(CNN) -- Facebook says it was afresh hacked, admitting it says no abstracts about its added than a billion users was compromised.
The aggregation declared the "sophisticated attack" in a blog column on Friday, adage it took abode in January if a baby amount of advisers visited a compromised website that installed malware on their machines.

"As anon as we apparent the attendance of the malware, we remediated all adulterated machines, abreast law administration and began a cogent analysis that continues to this day," Facebook Aegis said in the post.

Facebook, the better amusing arrangement in the world, is the latest high-profile website to be afraid this year. Twitter appear a agnate advance beforehand this month, and above account organizations including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Column accept aswell accepted to getting hacked.

The account sites attributed the breaches to hackers alive for the Chinese government, but neither Facebook nor Twitter acknowledgment China if anecdotic their attacks.

"Facebook was not abandoned in this attack. It is bright that others were attacked and infiltrated afresh as well," said the blog post. "As one of the aboriginal companies to ascertain this malware, we anon took accomplish to alpha administration data about the aggression with the added companies and entities that were affected. "

Unlike Twitter, Facebook said it has begin no affirmation that any user advice was compromised. Twitter said that user names, encrypted passwords and e-mail addresses for as abounding as 250,000 users were potentially affective by the hackers. It displace passwords for all afflicted accounts.

The cord of hacks accept primarily exploited vulnerabilities in the programming accent Java, which is installed on a lot of computers by default. Facebook said the website amenable for its advance took advantage of a ahead alien Java vulnerability, which Oracle patched on February 1.

In January, the Department of Homeland Aegis issued an active about the security-challenged software and recommended humans about-face it off on their computers. Apple angry off Java by absence for its OS X users as a precaution. Full instructions on how to attenuate Java on any computer can be begin on Oracle's website. If you accept to use Java, accomplish abiding that you accept downloaded the latest updates, which cover key aegis patches.

Facebook said it will abide to plan with law administration and others in the industry to anticipate approaching attacks.