Vulnerability on Facebook exposes photos of 6.8 million users

New security flaw in Facebook, the umpteenth of this year, which is not being good for the social network. In this case, it is a failure in which 1, 500 third-party applications have had access to the photos of 6.8 million users on the popular social network. The worst thing is that these are photos that these users have not uploaded. This ruling was found effective for 12 days in September.

A security breach on Facebook exposes photos of 6.8 million users

A new vulnerability in the social network, which has already experienced similar episodes in recent months. In which it has become clear that their safety is not on the agenda.

New bug on Facebook

There are times when a photo that a user tries to upload to Facebook is not uploaded. The connection may have been interrupted, the upload is not completed due to a failure, or the user regrets. These photos are saved in the system. It is possible that if they change their minds, or the connection returns, they can upload that photo if they want. They are the photos that have been exposed by this new security flaw.

The social network has recognized the error. They have issued a statement in which they talk about the failure, in addition to mentioning that they are working on a series of measures that will arrive shortly to prevent something like this from happening again and third-party apps have access to these photos.

Facebook has commented that affected users will be alerted. So if you have been affected by this security breach in the social network, you should see an alert or notification about it. What do you think about this new ruling?

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