Facebook profile access 'leaked' claims Symantec

[The Dragon Master]

Access to hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts may have accidentally been leaked because of a flaw in some applications.



Security firm Symantec discovered that programs were inadvertently sharing access tokens which could be used by advertisers.



It estimates that, as of last month, 100,000 applications were still enabling leaks.



Facebook said that it was improving authentication methods.



We have been working with Symantec to identity issues in our authentication flow to ensure that they are more secure, Facebook's Naitik Shah wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

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[Jazzy]

Yet another reason I have no desire to open a Facebook account. My friends account there got hacked last month. All his pictures and personal information were nicked and it's truly not a pleasant thing to have to go through. Someone was sending all his friends messages stating he was stranded in another country and needed them to send money right away. Thank goodness none of his friends believed it. He has since deleted his Facebook account but is still having repercussions from this hack.