Facebook Suggested Account Security Measures Following Last Week’s Breach

The social network shared tips for pages, groups, apps, advertisers, businesses

In the wake of Facebook’s latest security breach, the social network shared some tips for how page administrators, group administrators, application developers, advertisers and businesses can further secure their accounts.

Facebook revealed Friday that attackers who have not yet been identified exploited its View As feature, which enables people to see what their profiles look like to other people on the platform. Those attackers were able to use the bugs to steal access tokens, which keep users logged into their accounts so that they do not need to re-enter their passwords each time they access the social network.

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