{"id":5472,"date":"2018-12-14T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/new-facebook-bug-exposed-millions-of-photos\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:32:06","slug":"new-facebook-bug-exposed-millions-of-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/new-facebook-bug-exposed-millions-of-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Facebook bug exposed millions of photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
<\/p>\n

\"FacebookImage copyright<\/span>
\n Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted.<\/p>\n

It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experience “It’s Your Facebook” in New York’s Bryant Park.<\/p>\n

It said several third-party apps had access to “a broader set of photos than usual” for 12 days in September.<\/p>\n

The company said it would notify affected users.<\/p>\n

It is the latest in a series of data breaches at the social network, which has faced scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Image copyright<\/span>
\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>

Image caption<\/span>
\n
\n Facebook opened a pop-up privacy experience on 13 December
\n <\/span>
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“When someone gives permission for an app to access their photos on Facebook, we usually only grant the app access to photos people share on their timeline. <\/p>\n

“In this case, the bug potentially gave developers access to other photos,” the company said in a blogpost.<\/a><\/p>\n

It said up to 1,500 apps were affected by the glitch.<\/p>\n

As well as letting developers access photos on a user’s timeline, it gave them access to photos posted in Stories and Marketplace, among other features.<\/p>\n

It also let them see photos that people had uploaded but not posted on Facebook, for example if they had started writing a post but not finished it.<\/p>\n

Facebook said it would be working with affected developers to help them “delete the photos from impacted users”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


\n
Source<\/a> by [author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image copyright Reuters Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted. It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experience “It’s Your Facebook” in New York’s Bryant Park. It said several third-party apps had access to “a broader … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}