Hackers accessed personal information from 30 million Facebook users

Nearly 30 million phone numbers and email addresses of Facebook users have been accessed by hackers, constituting the greatest infringement on the security of the story from the company, said Facebook Friday. The attackers had access to more details about 14 million of these users, including the region where they live, their relational status and their religion.

The new details arrive two weeks after Facebook announced for the first time that attackers had access to 50 million user accounts, which means they could have logged in as users . Facebook said Friday that "we now know that fewer people were affected than we originally thought," and said that 30 million people had been affected.

For the 14 million most affected victims, attackers were able to access the following information, said Facebook: "user name, gender, location / language, relationship status, religion, hometown, current city declared , date of birth, types to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they have logged in or tagged, to a website, to the people or pages they follow and the most recent research. "

Facebook said it would send a message to the 30 million users concerned in the coming days.

The company has also declared cooperation with the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission and the Irish Data Protection Commission.

Facebook is regulated by the Irish authorities in Europe, its European headquarters being located in this city. A spokesman for the Irish Data Regulator said about the announcement on Friday: "The update of Facebook today is important now that Facebook has confirmed that the personal data of millions of people in the United States. users were seized by the perpetrators of the attack ".

Despite Friday 's announcement, many details about the hacking have not yet been made public, including the identity of whoever was behind.

The attack prompted Facebook to take an unprecedented step: disconnect the 50 million users whose accounts were exposed and disconnect 40 million additional users as a precaution.