Almost 50 million Facebook accounts hacked, around 40 million at risk.
News on Friday night said that there is security breach for 50 million accounts and another 40 million accounts at risk. As per the news on Saturday morning , around 90 million people have been affected because of the security bug in a feature called "view As".
How will you know if your account is at Risk or affected?
Check your Facebook account immediately.
If you are affected you will see that you have been logged out of Facebook app or any other app in which you use Facebook ID. You will also be logged out of Facebook web page if you have been affected.
They say that Facebook has taken a "precautionary step of resetting access tokens for 40 million accounts that have been subject to "View As".
If your account is affected, you will see a notification at the top of your News Feed explaining what happened.
What is the best way to secure your information?
It is advised to change the password and make sure you keep a strong password.(my advise)
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