Facebook has fixed the serious bug in its service.Serious bug was occurred in Facebook live chats.Any user can enable live chats of their friends with few clicks.This was really major privacy issue because anyone can view sensitive information of others.
Thanks to O’Hear,author with TechCrunch to notice this serious privacy hole.He has informed to Facebook about this exploit.
Facebook reported about the bug on their wall.
Chat is unavailable as we work quickly to fix a bug reported to us. It should return to normal soon. Because of the bug, people could view friends’ chat messages and friend requests for a limited amount of time if they manipulated the “preview my profile” feature in a specific way. We’ve fixed that issue and took downChat as soon as we became aware of it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Here is the video of the exploit in action captured by O’Hear.
After few hours Facebook sent this statement.
“For a limited period of time, a bug permitted some users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to be made visible to their friends by manipulating the “preview my profile” feature of Facebook privacy settings. When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function. We also pushed out a fix to take care of the visible friend requests which is now complete. Chat will be turned back on across the site shortly. We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented.”
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Bugs happen even to the best.
That was really scary, because this can be very dangerous to all Facebook users, I just hope that this kind problem will never be encountered again.
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