October 24, 2007
3:32 pm

Facebook users who type sensitive information into a site feature known as Notes may be interested in knowing that it is currently experiencing a bug that allows documents designated as private to be read anyway.

A Facebook customer service representative privately confirmed the bug to a user who complained that notes he configured to be private were anything but. That was on Friday. Four days later, the site has yet to issue any public notification of the flaw.

"We hope to resolve this note privacy settings bug that you described as soon as possible," a rep by the name of Pam wrote. "I would suggest that you contact us in several days if this problem has not been fixed."

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Facebook, Vunlnerability, Bug, Exploit, Social Media, Social Networking

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    Internet security news says#1 | March 20th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    This bug has been removed successfully. Now one can use face book without fear but still can expect more bugs as hackers are busy in finding loops.

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