Facebook became the most recent victim to hacking when some of its employees' laptops were accessed by hackers.
Facebook announced Friday that it had become a target of "sophisticated hacking" when a group of hackers gained access to some of its employees' laptops. The No.1 social networking site said that no information was compromised. The attack occurred when some of their employees visited a website and immediately their computers were infected with malware. Reportedly, this took place last month.
"As soon as we discovered the presence of the malware, we remediated all infected machines, informed law enforcement, and began a significant investigation that continues to this day," Facebook said.
Facebook refused to comment on why they had kept the incident under wraps till now, when the actual hacking took place a month ago. Even now, the company hasn't revealed much details about the hack. However, an expert who was aware of it said the company has found evidence that the cyber attack originated in China.
This hacking is clear evidence that cyber attacks are a fast growing threat that are affecting social networking sites the most.
Earlier this month, Twitter, which has over 20 million active users, announced its biggest security breach when passwords and email addresses of 250,000 users were reportedly stolen by hackers. The social networking site said that it had been dealing with growing concerns on cyber attacks for some time now but nothing as huge as this had ever affected the website.
The website also announced that it had sent out warning messages to all users who may have had their passwords stolen and requested them to reset it. However, security experts have warned that hackers may already be in possession of very valuable customer information as most Twitter users have passwords that are similar to what they use for other websites as well as banking purposes.
