--- title: Facebook Says 30 Million Accounts Have Been Hacked. Here's How to Check If Yours Is One of Them description: The social media giant announced Friday that hackers accessed about 30 million users' info. authors: - name: Julia Glum role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/julia-glum/ bio: Julia Glum joined Money in 2018 and specializes in covering financial trends that affect everyday Americans' wallets. She also writes Dollar Scholar, a weekly newsletter that teaches young adults how to navigate the messy world of money. education: University of Florida at_money_since: 2018 articles: 454 covers: - Identity Theft - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology also_seen_in: - Newsweek - International Business Times - CBS News - Good Morning America - WUSA9 - Pix 11 - The New York Times - Mashable - The Washington Post - CNBC - Politico social: - https://x.com/superjulia - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-glum published: '2018-10-12T19:28:27.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T11:02:10.000Z' section: Identity Theft tags: - Data Privacy - facebook word_count: 316 canonical: https://money.com/facebook-hack-check-your-account/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Facebook Says 30 Million Accounts Have Been Hacked. Here's How to Check If Yours Is One of Them](https://img.money.com/2018/10/181012-facebook-hack-how-to-check.jpg?quality=85&w=1012&h=569&crop=1) If you have a Facebook account, now would be a good time to check on it. The social media giant announced Friday that a [Facebook hack last month](https://money.com/facebook-data-breach/) compromised about 30 million users' names, phone numbers, emails and other personal details. According to a company [blog post](https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/update-on-security-issue/), attackers found a vulnerability in the code and used Facebook's "View As" feature to steal access tokens designed to allow people to stay logged in. The Facebook hack eventually exposed the names and contact information for 15 million users. But it gets worse. The hackers also accessed nearly everything 14 million users had on their profiles. That may include "username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches," according to Facebook. The hackers stole the tokens for, but did not access the data on, another 1 million accounts. The site began investigating the Facebook hack after noticing activity pick up on Sept. 14. By Sept. 27, it had stopped the attack. On Sept. 28, it went public with news of the incident, logging out about 90 million users [as a precaution](https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/). Initially, Facebook said as many as 50 million people had been affected, though it decreased that number in Friday's update. It also confirmed the FBI is involved — but has told it "not to discuss who may be behind this attack." ## Use the Facebook Help Center to See If You've Been Affected Facebook says it's going to start alerting everyone whose accounts were compromised "in the coming days," but you can find out right now. Go to [this Help Center page](https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice?ref=sec) and scroll to the bottom, where it says "Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?" 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