When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a Privacy Breach at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a tech-driven earthquake. The privacy of tens of millions of users of Facebook applications (or apps ) including mega hits like Zynga s Farmville. But as news of the story percolated within technology circles, another picture emerged this one considerably less sensational and more resigned than the original report. While the Journal succeeded in spotting some prominent Facebook applications that weren t adhering to the company privacy policy, the real story behind the breach was
Source: https://threatpost.com/behind-facebook-breach-new-apps-old-infrastructure-101810/74584/