{"id":85858,"date":"2018-12-15T04:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos"},"modified":"2018-12-29T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:00:39","slug":"facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos","title":{"rendered":"Facebook apologizes after security flaw exposes unpublished photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sorry this happened,\u201d Tomer Bar, engineering director at Facebook, wrote in a blog <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/12\/14\/notifying-our-developer-ecosystem-about-a-photo-api-bug\/\">post<\/a> about the flaw.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw allowed apps that users accessed through the social network\u2019s \u201cFacebook Login\u201d system to see photos that had been uploaded but not published on Facebook, as well as photos published to Facebook\u2019s \u201cMarketplace\u201d and to its Stories feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bug also impacted photos that people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post,\u201d Bar wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/12\/15\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos-n948051\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/12\/15\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos-n948051\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/12\/15\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos-n948051\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/12\/15\/facebook-apologizes-after-security-flaw-exposes-unpublished-photos-n948051\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sorry this happened,\u201d Tomer Bar, engineering director at Facebook, wrote in a blog post about the flaw. The flaw allowed apps that users accessed through the social network\u2019s \u201cFacebook Login\u201d system to see photos that had been uploaded but not published on Facebook, as well as photos published to Facebook\u2019s \u201cMarketplace\u201d and to its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86223,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85858\/revisions\/86223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}