Facebook bug exposes email ids, birthdays of Instagram users
4 years ago

Facebook bug exposes email ids, birthdays of Instagram users

India Today  

A cyber researcher has discovered a Facebook vulnerability that has exposed the personal email addresses and birthdays of Instagram users. Reacting to the whole incident, a Facebook spokesperson told The Verge, “A researcher reported an issue where, if someone was a part of a small test we ran in October for business accounts, personal information of the person they were messaging could have been revealed. Through our Bug Bounty Program, we rewarded this researcher for his help in reporting this issue to us.” Earlier in August, Pokharel had discovered that Instagram does not really remove the photos and videos that were deleted by users. “The researcher reported an issue where someone’s deleted Instagram images and messages would be included in a copy of their information if they used our Download Your Information tool on Instagram.

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A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
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A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses

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Still smarting from last month's dump of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the social media giant has a new privacy crisis to contend with: a tool that, on a massive scale, links Facebook accounts with their associated email addresses, even when users choose settings to keep them from being public. A video circulating on Tuesday showed a …

An Instagram bug exposed users' personal data; Facebook says issue has now been patched
4 years ago

An Instagram bug exposed users' personal data; Facebook says issue has now been patched

Firstpost  

It was found that the attack also worked on accounts that users had kept private in their settings and in accounts that were set to not accept DMs from the public. While Instagram promises users when they sign up for the service that their email ID and birthday will not be publically visible, security researcher Saugat Pokharel, recently discovered a …

Facebook Had a Bug That Exposed Instagram Users' Personal Email ID and Birthday, Researcher Claims
4 years ago

Facebook Had a Bug That Exposed Instagram Users' Personal Email ID and Birthday, Researcher Claims

News 18  

Facebook-owned Instagram was hit by a bug that reportedly revealed users’ private information such as email ID and birthday. According to The Verge citing security researcher Saugat Pokharel, the bug was exploitable by Facebook business accounts that were given access to an experimental feature that Instagram was testing. The report adds that bad actors, in this case, could leverage the …

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