ΦIt seems that 2018 closes with another scandal from Facebook which took place regarding a bug in the photo API that allowed applications to access the photos of 6.8 million users.
This bug affected users who used Facebook Login and allowed third-party applications to access their photos. The problem, we must emphasize, has been fixed but some applications had access to photos of users between 13 and 25 September 2018. This problem gave access to 876 developers from 1500 applications, to the photos of about 6.8 million users, which only his is a serious event.
What is believed is that under normal circumstances, these developers had access to the photos that users only post on the Facebook timeline, but due to the bug, they gained access to other photos, such as those shared on the Marketplace, Facebook Stories and in photos that were uploaded to Facebook but were not published in the timeline of users.
The only applications affected by this bug are those that Facebook allowed access to the photo API and those to which users gave access to their photos, so there is no issue of access without the authorized permission of users, with the Facebook to apologize and apologize for what happened.
According to the announcement on the Facebook page of the developers, next week tools will be available for application developers that will allow them to determine which of their application users are affected by this bug, with the company working with them to delete photos.
Finally, in case a user's account has been affected by the photo bug, he will receive an update on Facebook and there will be a link in the Help Center and he will be able to see if he has used any of the applications that gained access to his photos. In addition, Facebook suggests that users log in to the applications with which they have shared Facebook photos and see which of them the applications have access to.
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