From medialifemagazine.com:
Say cheese: Glitch unwalls private Facebook photos
Be warned: Despite a recent upgrade to ensure privacy on Facebook, a security lapse yesterday allowed anyone to see personal photos on the popular online social networking site. The security breach was discovered by a Canadian computer technician, Byron Ng, who reported it to The Associated Press, which verified the lapse. Facebook reports that the breach only lasted about an hour. Last week, Facebook announced that it had added more privacy guards to ensure that it keeps its 67 million members’ profiles personal. Ng was able to circumvent the new protections using a computer-coding trick that he shared with an AP reporter. The reporter then had the ability to look through personal photo albums that were supposed to be private, including one of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s not the first security breach of this type. MySpace.com, the world’s largest online social network, had a security lapse earlier this year during which its members’ private photos were also exposed.
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