The Recent Facebook Breach Could Have Exposed Third-Party Apps

The most recent Facebook Breach could have been affected beyond the social platform. The company revealed in a follow-up conference call that other apps and services that let users log-in using Facebook credentials could have also been affected by the recent breach.

Even though there is no app or service being confirmed breached yet, but it is still a concern for users.

Facebook has said that it has patched the vulnerability and reset all the access tokens that have allowed users to signup and login into apps such as Instagram or Spotify. All of those accounts are safe now but they may have to re-log into other services.

Even though Facebook managed to fix the issues, it may not be able to fix the long-term damage to the Facebook brand image. After news relating to the hack been released, the value of Facebook has declined by $13 billion.

During the discussion of the security breach, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg made a comparison of security to an arm's race and revealed Facebook's plan to fight these threats by doubling the number of its security team by the end of this year.

Unfortunately, this is not the only security relating scandal that has affected the users' trust on the ability of Facebook to protect their data. Cambridge Analytica is the most prominent scandal that came to light as Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica used a third-party app to get data of Facebook users without their agreements. It was further revealed that Cambridge Analytica used the data gathered from Facebook for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Brexit movement in the UK.

This most recent hack is pretty different from the Cambridge scandal due to it not being political related but it still did a lot of damage to the reputation of Facebook. The damage was even worse when it was confirmed that the accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg were among the affected.