Facebook. A new very serious problem was discovered for the social network accessed by more than 2 billion people from all over the world, the Americans failing to provide a decent experience for users. Facebook admitted today that unpublished photos from 6.8 million accounts could be accessed by third-party applications without users knowing, which represents a very serious security problem for the social media platform.
Facebook. The applications that could access these unpublished pictures had access from the users to have access to the public pictures, but due to a bug in the platform, they could also access the unpublished ones. The pictures that could be accessed by these third-party applications are those from stories, which disappear after a day, but also those taken, uploaded automatically by Facebook to the platform, but not published, many of them being indecent, or with confidential information.
Facebook. ATTENTION, New SERIOUS PROBLEM Confirmed
Facebook. According to the company, this bug was active only between September 12 and September 25, which allowed access to people's private photos, but of course the period could be even longer than that, without knowing. Facebook will start to notify all affected users about this problem, no less than 1500 applications having access to the photos from the 6.8 million accounts, and we are talking about tens of millions of photos, or maybe even more.
Our internal team discovered a photo API bug that may have affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos. We have fixed the issue but, because of this bug, some third-party apps may have had access to a broader set of photos than usual for 12 days between September 13 to September 25, 2018.
Facebook. The company apologized for the existence of this problem, but everything is equal to zero since people will not be able to know which of the applications took their pictures, and what is done with them. Facebook has recently been exposed as a big liar, with British MPs publishing internal company documents admitting that users are being spied on, although publicly the company has always denied this, lying shamelessly.