Lately we can see a lot of controversy surrounding Facebook. From Mark Zuckerberg being interrogated to multiple safety breaches. This time the problem is similar. Photos of 6.8 million users have been leaked to other apps due to a bug. Facebook’s bad streak does not seem to end, they lose popularity among users and do not seem to have any ideas to invite new people to use their app. They are starting to look like a not reliable source.
This incident happened from 12 to 15 September and has recently been announced. It is estimated that over 1500 apps from 876 users may have been granted access to privete pictures of users. The bug occured in Facebook login option that was supposed to use only photos intended for certain apps. The reason I bring this up is because many people use Facebook to log into different apps or platforms and Facebook shows how dangerous can it be. Imagine if someone can find your bank account informations or photos that are private and can be used against you. The worst think about most of these incidents is that they are not caused by hackers or people from outside of Facebook but from the inside. Even though company says that safety of your information is their priority it does not look like a safe platform to put a lot of information about yourself on. Every user whose photos were have recieved a message on how to proceed.
The interesting fact is that some sites in their articles provide you with a tutorial about how to suspend or delete your account, this shows how much trust is Facebook losing after so many breaches and scandals. I wold recommend everyone not to login into sites using Facebook account bcause it may seem faster but in the long run we never know what kind of brach will hit Facebook in the future.
Sources:
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/facebook-data-breach-exposed-private-photos
It is very disconcerting that so many people post almost every personal information they can on such treacherous websites like facebook. I have noticed that the number of my friends using facebook is decreasing. Most of them use only messenger and instagram, which are also owned by Facebook – so their informations are still not safe. In my opinion if you want to keep your private information private – posting them on social media is the last thing you should do.
It seems pretty ironic that Facebook is being so unfair with its users after using privacy as a marketing gimmick for such a long period of time.Its happening every now and then personal data leaking. This is the second time Facebook leaked customer data and google also reported that they have exposed customer data. I think big brands should be more focused on data security rather than sitting and waiting for data breaching to occur. After this I’ll be forced to disable my FB account.