Facebook bug allowed websites to grab unsuspecting users’ personal data

Security firm Imperva found a bug in May that allowed websites to read Facebook users and their friends’ private information. The troubling vulnerability let a site access users’ likes and interests through a manipulated Facebook Graph query. Thankfully, the bug has now been fixed Imperva’s researcher Ron Masas discovered in May that Facebook was exposed to cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

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