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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Hacker Found Facebook Vulnerability that Exposes Your Private Photos and Receive $10000 Reward

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facebook BugBug hunter Laxman Muthiyah has reported a Facebook vulnerability that exposes private photos to potentially malicious applications. If you have enabled automatic Facebook Photo Sync feature on your iPhone, iPad or Android devices, then Hackers can steal your personal photographs without your knowledge.
But this bug is now fixed when Laxman reported it to Facebook.
A malicious app which you are using can read all of your private photos in few seconds--- Muthiyah says.
Read a complete Blog of Laxman : How I Exposed Your Private Photos - Facebook Private Photos Hack

Here's the message that Muthiyah received after Facebook fixed the bug:

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Last month the Laxman scored US$12,500 for quietly disclosing a method to delete photo albums from the site using the Facebook Graph API



So How To Disable Auto-Sync and Safe Your Private Photos

In order to do so, just go to Facebook mobile app menu, scroll down
>> Select Account
>> App Settings
>> Sync Photos, then Choose
>> Don't sync my photos

See Yahoo Report.
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