The producers of a privacy application say they have unintentionally stumbled across a major Facebook bug that makes millions of users unprotected data to identify theft from hackers.
“We really didn’t believe it at first,” MyPermissions CEO Olivier Amar told Yahoo News in a phone interview. “Any application that uses Facebook to connect can be shut down.”
Simply, None can take someone personal information from the Facebook.Amar and his Israel-based team trying the bug while testing their app,which allow user to control their personal information private in games and applications.Now none application can access users personal information.Both Facebok and MyPermissions have publicly announced to remove this bug, but it is hope that they will done it the at the end of Thursday.Amar said that while he believes
that the bug is limited to mobile and tablet devices, he said Facebook is
testing it on desktops as well.It's little odd to work with Facebook because his company’s mission is to protect
users’ privacy from Facebook.
“We really set out to protect users,” he said. "We never thought we’re going to end up protecting Facebook.”
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