{"id":33510,"date":"2011-05-11T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=33510"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:44:19","slug":"facebook-may-have-leaked-personal-information-symantec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/11\/facebook-may-have-leaked-personal-information-symantec\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook may have leaked personal information: Symantec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33511\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33511\" title=\"FacebookLeaks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FacebookLeaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FacebookLeaks.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FacebookLeaks-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Facebook page is displayed on a computer screen in Brussels April 21, 2010. Credit: Reuters\/Thierry Roge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; <strong>Facebook users&#8217; personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, according to Symantec Corp&#8217;s official web blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Third-parties would have had access to <em><strong>personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, and could have had the ability to post messages<\/strong><\/em>, Symantec&#8217;s web blog said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We estimate that as of April 2011, close to 100,000 applications were enabling this leakage,<\/strong>&#8221; the blog post said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8221; &#8230; Over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties,&#8221;<\/strong> posing a security threat, the blog said.<\/p>\n<p>The third-parties may not have realized their ability to access the information, the blog post said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook was notified of this issue and has confirmed the leakage<\/strong>, the post said.<\/p>\n<p>The blog also said Facebook, the world&#8217;s largest social networking website, has taken steps to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook was not immediately available for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has more than 500 million users and is challenging Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for users&#8217; time online and for advertising dollars.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan, editing by Bernard Orr)<\/p>\n<p>www.reuters.com, 10 May 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Facebook users&#8217; personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, according to Symantec Corp&#8217;s official web blog. Third-parties would have had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, and could have had the ability to post messages, Symantec&#8217;s web blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":33511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,922],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}