Facebook glitch lets slip users private video data
Facebook glitch lets slip users private video dataA loophole in Facebook’s notoriously complex privacy controls has been discovered which makes visible a full listing of your friends Facebook videos.
Although the video itself would remain blocked the name, thumbnail, description and the people tagged in each clip were visible to friends of the user who weren’t authorised to view the clip.
In a statement Facebook confirmed that the glitch had been present for just over a week and had now been fixed.
The latest security flaw follows a spate of failings on the dominant social network - from sending messages to the wrong people to vulnerability to XSS attack’s
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