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Security Bug Exposed Facebook's Entire Photo Database

Around the world, roughly 1.4 billion people trust Facebook to serve as secure scrapbook for their lives. But, as one security research discovered, the platform isn’t as secure as users assume. As the Naked Security blog reports, Laxman Muthiyah recently figured out how to delete “every one of those hundreds of billions of images” on Facebook. Luckily for over a billion trusting consumers, “He reported the bug to Facebook as soon as he found it, netting himself a cool $12,500 USD bug bounty in return.”
 

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