US Facebook 2012 Hacking (Q13852)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | US Facebook 2012 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2012
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A self-proclaimed security enthusiast has exposed a major flaw in Facebook, one in which nearly every users phone number can be used to view their personal information. His name is Suriya Prakash, and his method of cultivating numbers involves using Facebooks mobile site to bypass security limits imposed on the social networking sites regular portal, or so he claims. Heres how he explains it. About a month ago I was just browsing Facebook on my Facebook mobile application and it had an option called Find friends using contacts -- what it does is that it compares the contact list from your phone to the Facebook database to see if you have any friends that are in your contacts but not on your Facebook account, Prakash told The Next Web. I also later figured out that simply searching a perso (English)
