MUMBAI: Social media company, Facebook, on Friday stated that hackers had accessed 29 million user data in the breach which was disclosed late last month. Facebook previously had said that 50 million users were affected due to the data breach.

In a recent conference call regarding the investigation, Facebook vice president of product management, Guy Rosen said, “We now know that fewer people were impacted than we originally thought.”

The hackers had accessed the names, phone numbers and email addresses of 15 million users and for the other remaining 14 million users, the attack came to be more damaging as along with that data the hackers accessed additional information including gender, religion, hometown, birth date and places they had recently "checked in" to as visiting.

Also one million people remain unaffected as no data was accessed, although their ‘access tokens’ were stolen, said Rosen.

Facebook reassured that the attack did not affect Facebook-owned Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, payments, third-party apps or advertising or developer account.

On the account of recent happenings, Zee Entertainment Enterprises chief executive officer Punit Goenka appeared cautious on Twitter.

29 million accounts compromised!! And all that @facebook has stated that the hackers got access to the digital login codes! While its sounding very simple, I hope that it was a difficult process for the hackers, else we all are in trouble friends.

— Punit Goenka (@punitgoenka) October 13, 2018