When it comes to the security of our data, most people are afraid of leaks of entire databases with data logging, direct attacks on our account and how to access them by the authorities theoretically having (or not) to do so. Meanwhile, sometimes to reveal our private information is sufficient to service error and accident.
This is what happened on Thursday night for the world’s largest social networking site – Facebook. As reported Niebezpiecznik, users visiting a particular profiles, photo galleries screened random users that were not in any way related to these profiles.
If that was not enough, use the appropriate links resulted in the partial log … to other people’s accounts of random people. Although it was not possible on their behalf to publish entries or modify your account settings, but it would obtain access to ongoing or recently completed (and especially the open window) calls. So if someone ran really confidential conversations via instant messaging FB (?!) Should count on that you do not become one of those people that someone decides preview. At the same time there was a theory, according to which such action resulted in the addition of a letter to a group of persons on whose accounts you can log in this way.
Another problem which users complain is displaying in some, often quite strange places graphic service owned by other users. Visitors to Facebook last night could be fairly surprised substitution of some icons or even seemingly meaningless emotes on the image.
With all this, it seems that the failure of others displaying images mainly affected users in our country.
Although not all photos look like they originated from Polish, but the silence at foreign sites on this issue is rather eloquent enough.
So far, what informs dobreprogramy service, you probably have at least got partially solve this problem. Unknown remains the cause, and Facebook so far – even if it is aware of the danger – is silent on this issue. Niebezpiecznik session suggests either a collision or server problems cache’ującymi. For any of the official websites Zuckerberg’s site did not appear, however, even the smallest information about the error and any steps you should take to avoid becoming a victim of such random attacks.
It remains to wait for the official statement and possibly Facebook information about what lay at the root of uncontrolled provide users with other people’s information. Those who have suffered, they have for this free lesson on how much the public is everything that goes into the network.
For now, we could only determine that Facebook already removed “error”. Soon we get more elaborate and formal position on this issue.
* Main photo from website Shutterstock.
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