Facebook is silently stealing user contacts

Information given by Symantec - the leading security company in the world - startled many people.

Recently, security firm Symantec has announced that users of Facebook applications on Android phones are being stolen phone contacts without even knowing it. Even Symantec adds, even if the user has never logged in, just installed the application and launched Facebook, all contacts stored on the device will be automatically sent to Facebook's server.

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Of course, in order to do this, the phone must be connected to the Internet - a common thing for Symantecartphone today.

It is known that only Facebook for Android has been discovered on this issue. The Android platform is popular but contains too many vulnerabilities and risks for users. On Google Play - Android's app store contains more than 700,000 software but most have vulnerabilities that are more or less dangerous to users.

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Although it has just been launched and never logged in, your entire contacts have been sent to Facebook.

Symantec claims , Facebook is not the only application that silently " steals " user contacts, but its danger is quite high when it is an online application. Imagine if other software also performed ' stealing ', privacy will no longer, not to mention the bad purposes will be made by hackers based on the collected data warehouse.