In a blog post Friday, the social media giant revealed that the software mishap allowed as many as 1,500 apps to access photos that “people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post
By Tony Romm| The Washington Post
Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that people began uploading to the site but didn’t post publicly.
The mishap, which occurred over a 12-day period in September, adds to Facebook’s mounting privacy headaches after incidents earlier this year in which it failed to fully safeguard the personal data of its users.
