How a Hacker Accessed Every Bit of a Facebook Profile

Mashable 2014-07-29

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Developer Nil Goldschlager found a permissions vulnerability in Facebook apps that, with a little tweaking, could grant an attacker access to every bit of any Facebook profile. Facebook has since patched the exploit.

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