Earlier today we reported that due to a glitch, Google users were suddenly finding themselves signed out of their accounts, leading some to worry that they might have been hacked or if it could be some kind of security issue. Google has since assured users that is not the case, and coincidentally enough the same thing has been happening to Facebook users as well.According to quite a few reports from Facebook users, it seems that there have been several users who are claiming that they have suddenly found themselves logged out of their Facebook account. However thankfully just like in the case of Google, this is not a security scare but rather it was due to some technical error with the system.
In a statement provided by Facebook, “Earlier today an error in one of our systems designed to help prevent suspicious account access sent a small set of people to our account recovery flow unnecessarily. We have fixed the issue and are in the process of clearing the affected accounts from this recovery flow. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Users who have found themselves logged out will only need to log back in again and things should go back normal. Like we said this appears to be a technical hiccup rather than a hack, or so we’re told, so there is nothing to worry about for now.
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