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Facebook Photo API Bug May Have Affected Up To 6.8 Million Users

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Facebook yesterday has disclosed a bug within its photo API which might have affected users that allowed third-party apps to access their photos. This
Facebook yesterday has disclosed a bug within its photo API which might have affected users that allowed third-party apps to access their photos. This particular bug apparently enabled these apps to access more photos than usual during a specific period back in September 2018.
Said to taken place from 13 to 25 September, the bug allowed third-party apps to access photos in areas such as Marketplace and Facebook Stories. This is something rather out of the ordinary since users usually only allowed these apps to access photos that were shared on their timeline alone.

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