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Facebook May Have Leaked Personal Info

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To third-party advertisers.

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Looks like advertisers had another way into your personal info: A flaw in Facebook gave nearly 100,000 applications the ability to share with advertisers “access tokens,” according to security-software maker Symantec Corp. With a token, an advertiser could have looked at profile info and wall posts and even posted on a person’s wall. Facebook says it has no evidence of the flaw being exploited in this way and that it has since corrected it.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal

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