Facebook Security Flaw May Have Jeopardized User Info — Symantec

A recent report by Symantec says that thousands of Facebook apps have long been compromising private information of millions of Facebook users.
Symantec Corp., the largest security software maker based in California, published a report claiming that for several years now, almost 100,000 Facebook apps have been leaking access codes from profiles of the social network’s users.
The report also says that security flaws of apps could have given advertisers and other third parties access to Facebook users’ profiles, although a Facebook spokesman said that there is “no evidence” of this occurring.
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