Facebook has a serious bug again, causing personal photos of 6.8 million users to be shared for 1,500 applications

Yesterday (December 14, 2018) Facebook announced a software vulnerability that exists on this social network, allowing third-party applications to access users' personal photos.

Currently, there are many applications that require users to register for an account or log in via Facebook to access. This means, if you agree that the user has allowed the application to access your public image.

But with the new system hole on Facebook, these apps can access the photos that users have to use in private mode, the photos have been posted but not shared with friends, even the photos posted on Stories.

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There are many applications from different developers linked to Facebook.(Photo: Bugthinking).

According to Facebook, at least 6.8 million users are affected by the new vulnerability, 1500 applications from 876 different developers have access to their private images.

This error exists on Facebook's system from September 13 to September 25, 2018. That means more than 3 months ago, Facebook has discovered and patched this but did not give any immediate notice.

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It seems that Facebook cannot keep information private for users.(Photo: Indian Express).

When publicly announcing the error on December 14, Facebook apologized "for letting this happen" and said it would work with developers to delete photos of affected users. .

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