Facebook engineers analyzed logs of outside
applications and found no sign of trouble, according to product management vice president Guy Rosen.
"That investigation has so far found no evidence that the attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login," Rosen said in a blog post.
Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers,
dealing a blow to its effort to convince users to trust it with their data.
The social network is investigating the extent of harm done when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal "access tokens," the equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said engineers discovered the breach on September 25, and had a patch in place two days later.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-facebook-hack-apps.html#jCp
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