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Facebook's Photo API Bug Exposed Private Photos of 6.8 Million Users

Facebook Phtos breach

Facebook Phtos breach

I've said this before, and I'll say it over again, 2018 has been a rough year when information technology comes to users' privacy. It also started with Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal before this year, in which personal data of millions of people were harvested without consent.

At present, it looks like we have come up full circle to wrap up this twelvemonth yet another data breach at Facebook. This time, nosotros are talking about private photos from up to six.eight million users. Yes, Facebook has appear that it accidentally exposed individual photos of millions of users to third-party apps.

Facebook's Photo API Bug Exposed Private Photos of 6.8 Million Users

What Happened?

In a blog post detailing the issues, the social network said that some third-political party apps may accept had access to "a broader set up of photos than usual" for up to 12 days between September 13 to September 25, 2018. Facebook said it may have affected upwardly to 6.eight 1000000 users and upwardly to one,500 apps built by 876 developers.

Hither's what Facebook said – "When someone gives permission for an app to access their photos on Facebook, we usually simply grant the app admission to photos people share on their timeline. In this instance, the issues potentially gave developers access to other photos, such as those shared on Marketplace or Facebook Stories."

Facebook said the issues had to do with an error related to Facebook Login and its photos API. The bug allowed developers to access Facebook photos inside the app. It is also worth pointing out that this particular bug may have exposed even the photos that people decided to upload to the platform only chose not to post. So I am inclined to believe that those photos were private, which, y'all know, are meant to be kept that way.

What Tin You Do At present?

Facebook says it'll notify the people potentially impacted by this bug via an alert on Facebook. The notification will plainly directly you to a Help Center link where you'll exist able to run into if yous've used any of the apps that were affected by the issues.

Facebook's Photo API Bug Exposed Private Photos of 6.8 Million Users
Facebook Breach Alarm Notification

Even if you oasis't received a notification, you should log into whatever apps with which you've shared your Facebook photos. You might want to go rid of any/ all private photos. Other than that, there'due south nothing else you tin can do at this point.

Honestly, at this indicate, I wonder if information technology'southward actually worth having a Facebook account. Nosotros're talking about a company that has failed to preserve its users' private information, not once, but two times in the aforementioned twelvemonth. And the worst is, the issues, in both cases, haven't been caused past a malicious tertiary-party group. It'due south Facebook'due south own error, actually.

Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-photo-api-bug/

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