Facebook Security Flaw Exposed

Published:23-June-2009 | By Steve Evans

Sensitive user info revealed

Social networking site Facebook has been struck by another security flaw that could have exposed personal user information such as date of birth and home town.

The flaw was exposed by the creators of the blog FBHive.com, who discovered a hack that would show everything listed in a Facebook member's "Basic Information" panel, whether the user had hidden this information or not.

Security vendor Sophos claimed this data could include date of birth, home town, gender, family members, relationship status and political and religious views, and could be used to commit ID fraud.

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