Facebook flaw bypasses password protections

[karl]

Facebook has moved quickly to shut down a loophole which made some accounts accessible without a password.

The bug was exposed in a message posted to the Hacker News website.

The message contained a search string that, when used on Google, returned a list of links to 1.32 million Facebook accounts.

In some cases clicking on a link logged in to that account without the need for a password. All the links exposed the email addresses of Facebook user


Full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20180229

[ReginaGeorge]

Tsk tsk tsk. Facebook, you're on a slippy slope, my friend.

Not too long ago, there was glitch and people claimed private messages were being posted on wall's, but Facebook claimed it was just previous deleted status's. The claims sound far fetched, but where there's smoke, there's fire.

[nice]

I hope that didn't happen to anyone I know.

[Mortal Coil]

Oh, facebook...
wait
people still use facebook? O.o

[Darkness.]

Oh look, Facebook is in the news again. For all the wrong reasons. I guess it's good that they moved quickly to fix the loophole.

[Stronger]

Oh, facebook...
wait
people still use facebook? O.o

People always will, MySpace on the other hand.... >. >

[nice]

People always will, MySpace on the other hand.... >. >



Not for to much longer a lot of people use twitter.

[Mirage]

Oh Facebook. Again with your privacy flaws. What ever will we do?

[Matt_2012]

urghh, facebook! so dodgy don't even know why i still use it.

[Zeh Crazy]

I don't have anything on my account that is interesting enough to hack. Haha.

[Stronger]

Not for to much longer a lot of people use twitter.

I don't see that happening, Facebook has many more features then Twitter, so I don't see it becoming more popular than Facebook.

[nice]

I don't see that happening, Facebook has many more features then Twitter, so I don't see it becoming more popular than Facebook.


I know it doesn't but a lot of people like it a lot for some reason but I prefer Facebook.

[Infidelitas]

There goes my privacy again...

[chetansaini34]

I don't know about password flaw but i can tell you about facebook photo privacy flaw http://www.wrangle.in/topic/a0rmv1djufdm/alert-facebook-users-facebooks-photo-pri . Just enjoy and have fun .

[Lyra Heartstrings]

Please don't bump old threads.
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