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Investigators posed as buyers and were offered the messages at 10 cents per Facebook account. Continue reading Facebook Blames Malicious Extensions in Breach of 81K Private Messages→
Facebook has fallen victim to countless security breaches and November brings even more bad news for the social network. Russian hackers are selling private conversations of at least 81,000 Facebook accounts at 10 cents per account, writes the BBC. Acc… Continue reading Russian hackers compromise 120 million Facebook accounts; private messages on sale online→
Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn’t found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer. Continue reading Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug→
The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that’s not just Facebook is dealing with.
A bug in Twitter’s API inadvertently exposed some users’ direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets to unauthorized third-… Continue reading Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year→
Games streaming giant Twitch has admitted accidentally exposing some users’ messages to other users as it shut down its legacy in-house messaging system in May. Continue reading Twitch admits exposing user messages after archiving error→