Facebook Security Flaws Allowing Attackers To grab Your Private Photos

Facebook Security Flaws Allowing Attackers To grab Your Private Photos

A very serious security flaws found in Facebook. Recently a forum has demonstrated how any one can access and download someones private and locked photos from Facebook. Here we sharing the process. The flaw was first reported on the forums of BodyBuilding.com, presumably because the users of that website like taking photos of themselves and putting them online. The bug exploits the way the offensive photograph reporting tool works. Facebook has been heavily criticised in the last few years for matters of privacy and so there are people who will leap on this story as yet another example of how the company simply doesn’t take its users privacy seriously. Such problems have included a change to the terms and conditions that made all your photographs and statuses Facebook’s property and a settings change that made everything on everybody’s profile accessible to search engines by default.

Locate the person who you want to view photos of

Click on Report/Block. From the popup menu, select Inappropriate Profile photo and press continue

Select Nudity or pornography and press continue

Only check Report to Facebook and press continue

Only select Help us take action by selecting additional photos to include with your report and press Okay

While some browsers restrict this flaw, private photos that are hidden or unaccessible to

people who are friends, can not only be accessed but enlarged to their full scale.

While some browsers restrict this flaw, private photos that are hidden or unaccessible to people who are friends, can not only be accessed but enlarged to their full scale.

This private photo of Mark Zuckerberg is also been exposed from his profile by the method described earlier. Facebook later said that they are working to patch this security hole.