Facebook and its next big system crash. What this time? It turns out that a software bug caused third-party apps to access unpublished user photos for 12 days. The error could affect up to 6,8 million users.
Facebook and a major software bug
Facebook personally reported a system crash that resulted in unpublished photos of 6,8 million users being able to be downloaded by 1500 third-party applications. We are talking about images that have never been published on Facebook. The company said it would contact vulnerable users and do whatever it can to remove the photos.
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Permission to access photos
When we download some application that requires us to consent to access photos shared on Facebook, usually the company only grants access to the images posted on the user's timeline. The above-mentioned 1500 companies got access to many other images during a software error, which, for example, could have been sent to someone, but never published.
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Facebook and the scandalous 2018
It cannot be denied that 2018 will go down in Facebook history as the year of scandals. Facebook has never seen such an increase in users as this year has in its history, but the same can be said about the mistakes that were made by the company. It should be recalled that The New York Times and The Observer in March this year revealed that Cambridge Analytica had collected data from 50 million users. The results of the data analysis were sold to the election campaign team of presidential candidate Donald Trump. This information probably influenced the election of voters. In October, hackers gained access to 29 million user data, and a moment later, in November, The New York Times revealed again that Facebook knew Russia had used its platform to influence the 2016 US elections.
