The security company Symantec revealed that for years has allowed a loophole Facebook applications leakage of personal information to advertisers
Security firm Symantec found a new security breach on Facebook. It turns out that for years has allowed advertisers social network user accounts access their personal information through the application. According to Symantec, there was Facebook applications can be developed burst advertisers access to user account information to read and post messages on the "axis" of his. The Company estimates that the gap had existed about a hundred thousand applications. If so, it is quite possible that advertisers did not know that the option to do so and took advantage of the loophole. "When installing the application it prompts the user permission to perform certain functions. After it than - she gets a" key ", by which it can gain access to user information, or perform his name (like advertising on the wall - AL). Most of the expired those keys after a short time, but the application can request access keys active until the user changes the login password up. The application makes use of action Redirect (redirect), certain parameters can cause a leak of information, "explained Symantec blog post published on the subject. Symantec has announced up the problem in April, the company operated about it. Facebook said the problem was corrected and not found signs of a leak of personal information. "We had a comprehensive investigation which found no evidence that the problem has caused a leak of users' personal information third parties - third," said Facebook spokeswoman stressed that the developers and advertisers contractually forbidden to get and share information of users in any way against policies Facebook. This is not the first time Facebook is complicated Privacy malfunctions. The company has suffered in the past criticized the number of operations that hit the privacy of users - from a combination advertising system "Beacon" on its own announced publicly held online shopping Surfer (Facebook was fined about U.S. $ 9.5 billion) through legal proceedings for breach of privacy in Germany to change settings Privacy exposed user accounts defined them as closed, causing a global anger against the company. 
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