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>>colone+(OP)
Some more details here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

>>dom96+D
> But it’s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As”, a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts

oh boy, what a mess.

>>sdwise+e1
Stealing the access token is the worst possible attack, because it wouldn't get logged or lead to any sort of notification. If they were only able to steal the passwords, this would have gotten caught immediately.