As I have been repeatedly saying, do not divulge personal/confidential information in social networking sited.
The information,apart from being misused by the site is also likely to be accessed by third parties.
” A major security flaw left the accounts of Facebook users exposed for years before it was fixed, security firm Symantec says. Around 100,000 Facebook applications accidentally shared users’ access tokens—described as a “spare key” to the account that allow the apps to do things like post info to a user’s wall—with advertisers and other third parties, the Wall Street Journal reports. Facebook says it took care of the problem after Symantec told the company about it last month.
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Facebook’s complex ecosystem—with thousands of independent apps and complex data flows to and from apps—is a problem of its own creation.- Ben Edelman, an assistant professor
at Harvard Business School”http://www.newser.com/story/118283/huge-facebook-security-flaw-uncovered.html
Related:
Symantec today warned that advertisers, analytic platforms, and other third parties may be able to access Facebook users’ personal information using inadvertently leaked application tokens. The security company advised Facebook users to change their passwords on the social networking site in order protect their accounts from being mined..
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