Facebook now says 30 million affected by hack, will notify users

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Facebook has finally shared an update on the massive hack that affected millions of accounts. 

Of the 50 million thought to be "directly affected," Facebook now says that only 30 million accounts were impacted and 29 million had personal data scraped.

Facebook also confirmed that it will notify those affected by the hack in the "coming days," with a notice that will appear at the top of News Feeds. People can also check whether or not they were affected in Facebook's Help Center right now.

The bad news it Facebook now confirms that 29 million accounts had some personal information lifted by hackers. Here's a description of what was accessed, according to Facebook's VP of Product Management, Guy Rosen: Read more...

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