Facebook fixes bug that allowed friend deletion
By Robert McMillan – May 21, 2010 08:21 PM ET
IDG News Service – Facebook has fixed a flaw that let hackers delete Facebook friends without permission.
The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was patched Friday afternoon, Pacific time, after the IDG News Service notified Facebook of the issue.
The bug was a variation of an earlier vulnerability that Facebook learned about last week, which affected a range of features on the Web site. Hackers could have leveraged Abbagnaro’s bug to delete all of a victim’s contacts, one by one, but it does not appear that anyone ever exploited it in a malicious way.
For Abbagnaro’s attack to work, however, a user would have to have been tricked into clicking on a malicious Web link while still logged into Facebook.
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