Facebook says attackers stole details from 29 million users

Facebook Inc said on Friday it had affirmed that the assailants in the mass security rupture it declared toward the end of last month got to the records of around 30 million individuals altogether and stole name and contact points of interest for 29 million.

Facebook Inc said in late September that programmers stole advanced login codes enabling them to assume control almost 50 million client accounts in its most noticeably awful security rupture at any point, however did not affirm if data had really been stolen.

The organization said that for 15 million individuals, assailants got to two arrangements of data – name and contact points of interest including telephone number, email, or both, contingent upon what the people had on their profiles.

For another 14 million individuals, the aggressors likewise got to different points of interest included username, sex, region/dialect, relationship status, religion, main residence, current city, birth date, gadgets used to get to Facebook, training, work, and the last 10 places they registered with or were labeled in.

"We're participating with the FBI, or, in other words and requested that us not talk about who might be behind this assault," Facebook said on a blog entry.