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Facebook Vulnerability Allows Hacker to Delete Any Photo Album

Vulnerability resides in Facebook Graph API mechanism, which allows “a hacker to delete any photo album on Facebook” Indian security researcher Laxman Muthiyah has found a way to delete not just his own, but also others Facebook photo albums within few seconds. In order to delete a photo album from victim’s Facebook account, the attacker only needs to send a. HTTP-based Graph API request with victim’s photo album ID and attacker’s own access token generated for ‘Facebook for android’ app.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/hacking-facebook-photo-album.html

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