A failure in facebook messenger kids authorized chats with strangers

Facebook Messenger Kids is a version of the chat app designed for children. Thanks to it, they can be in contact only with those people they trust, such as their family or some friends. Although the application has suffered a serious security flaw, it allowed children to have chats with strangers. This problem occurred in group chats.

A failure in Facebook Messenger Kids authorized chats with strangers

In these group chats, due to this failure, unknown users were not blocked. Which allowed them to have contact with people who did not know anything.

Security breach

As a result, kids were able to have a huge amount of unauthorized conversations on Facebook Messenger Kids. The company has already corrected this failure, as announced in a statement. Although it is not known at the moment how many children would have had chats with unknown people, that could pose a problem or a danger to them. Luckily, this should already be a thing of the past as the error has been corrected.

It is not the first time that the social network has security problems, as we have seen in the past year. Although in the case of this application it is especially bleeding. Since it had been advertised as a safe and trustworthy option for children, something that has proven not to be the case.

The hope is that there will be no more security flaws in Facebook Messenger Kids. But it is clear that the social network continues to have certain problems in the field of security and privacy, which should be solved as soon as possible.

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