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Facebook told staff but not users about single sign-on risks, says court filing

  • Post author By Randall
  • Post date August 16, 2019
  • Categories In court case, Facebook, facebook hack, judge william alsup, Security, single single sign-in, Tech, tomorrow

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Facebook suffered a massive breach last year which affected up to 29 million users. There were concerns at the time that hackers could use the compromised accounts to log in to other services using the Facebook Login feature, though investigators found that this had not occurred.

The court case, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, focuses on the dangers of Facebook offering a single log-in tool for signing into to third-party apps and services. If a user’s Facebook account is compromised, their other accounts can be at risk as well.

Facebook was aware of this risk, as they warned their own employees about the security issues with the single sign-on tool, according to court filings seen by Reuters. However, that warning was not extended to the public.

US District Judge William Alsup, who has previously presided over tech cases involving Oracle and Google and Waymo, said in January he would allow “bone-crushing discovery” to get to the bottom of how the user data was compromised. This potentially allows the plaintiffs’ lawyers to open Facebook records, letting them piece together what really happened.

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