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Released: December 08, 2011
Facebook glitch reveals private photos—including Zuckerberg’s
Source: Rosa Golijan, MSNBC
A glitch in the system used to report inappropriate images on Facebook briefly allowed users to view others’ private photos. No one’s pictures were safe — not even those belonging to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Members of the BodyBuilding.com forums were among the first to discover the glitch and they quickly put together detailed instructions on how it could be exploited by those wishing to view private images of friends and strangers.
It didn’t take long for a link to those instructions to make its way around the Internet and for folks to start snooping on their former lovers, enemies, teachers, bosses, employees ... and on Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg.
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