It seems that we can’t even go a few weeks without some new story about a worrisome Facebook bug emerging. Earlier today, the social networking giant revealed that one of their internal teams discovered a photo API bug impacting third-party apps. Specifically, some third-party apps may have had access to a broader set of a user photos than typically allowed, both public and private, for about 12 days in late September.
When it comes to third-party Facebook apps and their access to user photos, the way it works is pretty simple: apps can only access public photos which appear on a given user’s timeline. The bug in question, however, granted access to all sorts of photos, even photos that weren’t fully posted to the site.
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New Facebook bug exposed private photos from millions of users originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 17:33:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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