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Facebook the Target of Hack Attacks

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    FBN's Shibani Joshi on Facebook reporting it was the target of a series of hack attacks.

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Revealing -- over the weekend that it's been the target of a series of attacks on employee computers.

Shibani Joshi joins us with the very latest developments on -- she Bonnie what do we know at this point.

And yeah pretty scary -- data and considering that they're a billion people on FaceBook posting what we presume are brightening.

Photos status updates and videos very much unlike what is publicly out there -- Twitter.

And -- -- and many of the other sites but face but he did acknowledge via a blog posts.

On -- Friday night that it was in the on the receiving end of a cyber attack here is basically the breath of what happened and in -- of what happened.

The company saying quote last month -- -- security discovered -- -- systems.

Have been targeted in a sophisticated attack this attack occurred when a handful of employees.

Visited Al mobile developer site that was compromised we began a significant investigation that continues to this day.

We have no evidence that the face -- user data was compromised in this attacks -- two big takeaways.

He attacked generated through employees and -- the web -- they were visiting and secondly no user information that they are aware of has been compromised.

Though Reuters is reporting the FBI is investigating the details.

But all of this comes on a long straying a cyber attacks that we've been reporting on this over the last month certainly over the last six months as well.

Twitter for example just a couple of weeks ago -- 250000.

Users.

Their accounts and getting -- the New York Times a Wall Street Journal the Washington Post as we also reported their computer systems were hacked in infiltrated by Chinese.

And Linkedin last summer and got its password sold stolen for six point five million users so with a billion users out there day -- Many people just say it's just a matter of time to protect yourself ahead of time.

Thank you should -- it was great to see issue body Joshi.

On FaceBook and this hack attacks in general Google may.

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