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Facebook apologizes after photo bug exposed photos of millions of users

on Dec 15, 2018 | 0 comments

By Taruka Srivastav

Facebook has revealed that a photo API bug has exposed the private pictures of 6.8 million users through third party apps over a 12 day-period, in yet another privacy breach.

Users who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos were affected between September 13 to September 25, 2018.

The bug also impacted photos that people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post. For example, if someone had uploaded a photo to Facebook but didn’t finish posting it – perhaps because they lost reception or walked into a meeting – Facebook would store a copy of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum